Piano 1024

Notes from the maker

Short essays, added as they are written

The story and sound pages tell how this instrument came to be. These notes are for everything around it — the strange Italian words printed over a pianist's hands, the habits of practice, and what was learned tuning a piano that has no strings. New notes are added as they are written.

No. 1 · July 29, 2026

Una corda — the two words on the left pedal

Two ordinary Italian words that mean “one string”: where the name comes from, why a pedal counts strings, why the modern grand quietly breaks the arithmetic — and what the pedal really changes, which is not the volume.

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