Regarding "harmonic pedal" (was sostenuto pedal).  This appeared on rmmp
a while back.  Does anyone know more about it.  I went to the web site
but unfortunately I do not parlay francais, un poco espanole solomente.

Perhaps someone could fill-in us mono-lingual Americans.

> There is soon a concert in Paris (France) with a piano with an harmonic
> pedal.  You can see this in the Web:
>    http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/piano/
>
> Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
> Projet Cristal - INRIA Rocquencourt
> Tel: +33 (01) 39 63 53 51
> Email: daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr
> Web: http://pauillac.inria.fr:80/~ddr/

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)

 [ Editor's note:
 [
 [ The French announcement looks interesting: "The harmonic mechanism:
 [ a new sonority for the piano ... premiered 17 March 1997 ... created
 [ by Denis de La Rochefordiere."  "The lyre has the three traditional
 [ pedals, plus a fourth pedal at the left which controls the harmonic
 [ mechanism."
 [
 [ Philippe Rouille, can you provide us with a translation, please, and
 [ perhaps a synopsis of the press-review of the concert?  Merci !  :-)
 [
 [ Robbie