I know it's a funny question in the sense that the piano doesn't know where yours hands are. But wouldn't it be cool to have a feature that would allow you to select a note in advance of playing, that would tell the piano where the division point is. Generally your left hand is nearly always in a certain area.
I often find myself playing things in the right hand and thinking that they'd sound good if I could have sustain in that hand only and just use a few thuds (unsustained) with the right hand. Is there anyway of doing this, apart from having a separate keyboard above your main piano/keyboard?
I've taken to this kind of style of play (0:29 onwards) a lot when messing around on the piano. He's obviously playing without pedal, but what if you wanted to play things like this with some sustain in the right hand?
It was also when watching a particular part of the below performance that made me think about this.
Between 4:07-4:08, I'm also not sure what he he does with the pedal for that right hand run. It made me wonder, if I just had sustain in the right hand only, could I get it to sound like he plays it. Now I've no doubt that's not what he's doing, but when I try it using the sustain pedal for the chord change, it sounds too much; but when I use no sustain it sounds too empty. It's as if he has it somewhere in between. It might have something to do with the fact he has three pedals on his piano, and I just have one pedal. As far as I can tell the right hand (RH) plays:
D F# (DF#) (EG) A B A
Perhaps what I'm talking about might be somewhat like the opposite of the sostenuto pedal effect... that allows unsustained notes to be played over a sustained chord.
Thanks for reading