Chapter 1 Getting Started; Part Names And Functions - Yamaha TransAcoustic TA2 Owner's Manual

Chapter
1
Getting Started

Part names and functions

 Piano
Upright piano
Control unit
(page 13)
1
Silencing lever
Activates the TransAcoustic mode/Silent Piano mode (pages 18, 20).
 Pedals
Upright piano
1
1
Soft pedal
Reduces the volume and slightly changes the
timbre of the notes. The notes played before
this pedal is pressed are not affected.
2
Silencing pedal
with a sostenuto pedal)
Activates the TransAcoustic mode/Silent Piano
mode by pressing and sliding to the left
(pages 18, 20).
Sostenuto pedal
sostenuto pedal)
Sustains the notes that are being played at that
time even after you release the keys.
Subsequently played notes are not affected.
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TA2 Owner's Manual
(for models
1
1
equipped with a
sostenuto pedal)
2 3
(for models not equipped
(for models equipped with a
Grand piano
Control unit
Grand piano
1 2
3
Damper pedal
Sustains notes even after you release the keys.
When in the Silent Piano mode and a piano
Voice is selected, pressing
reproduces the complicated interaction of both
strings and soundboard resonance by the VRM
technology (page 44), and makes the sound
more like a real acoustic piano.
The damper pedal features an expressive half-
pedal function, and allows you to set the degree
to which pressing the damper pedal applies the
half-pedal effect (page 43) when in the
TransAcoustic mode/Layer mode/Silent Piano
mode.
(page 13)
3
this pedal