Keybedding
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The fault of continuing to press down too hard on the keys of a keyboard instrument after the initial key depression that creates the sound, thus holding the keys against the keybed with excessive force beyond that needed to produce the sound and keep the keys from rising. uncountable
""Key-bedding," as a fault, arises when you mis-time the action intended to produce a tone, and mis-apply this force to the pads under the Keys instead of carefully timing its culmination and completion during key-descent and with the tone, and its cessation forthwith."
Example
More examples""Key-bedding," as a fault, arises when you mis-time the action intended to produce a tone, and mis-apply this force to the pads under the Keys instead of carefully timing its culmination and completion during key-descent and with the tone, and its cessation forthwith."
Etymology
From keybed + -ing. Coined by Tobias Matthay (see quotations below).
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