Roland KR7/5 About the Pedals, Adjusting the Sound’s Volume and Brilliance, Connecting Headphones

Before You Start Playing

Before You Start Playing

About the Pedals

The pedals have the following functions, and are used mainly for piano performance.

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Soft Pedal Damper Pedal

Sostenuto Pedal

Damper pedal (right pedal)

Adjusting the Sound’s Volume and Brilliance

Turn the [Volume] knob to adjust the overall volume.

Turn the [Brilliance] knob to adjust the brightness of the sound.

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Min Max Mellow Bright

While this pedal is pressed, notes will be sustained even after you take your fingers off the keys.

On an acoustic piano, holding down the damper pedal will allow the remaining strings to resonate in sympathy with the sounds that you played from the keyboard, adding a rich resonance.

The KR-7/5 simulates this sympathetic resonance.

You can change the amount of resonance applied with the damper

pedal. Please refer to “Adjusting Resonance (Resonance)” (p. 142).

Sostenuto pedal (center pedal)

This pedal sustains only the sounds of the keys that were already played when you pressed the pedal.

Soft pedal (left pedal)

When you hold down this pedal and play the keyboard, the sound will have a softer tone.

About the Adjuster

When you move the KR-7/5 or if you feel that the pedals are unstable, adjust the adjuster located below the pedals as follows.

❍Rotate the adjuster to lower it so that it is in firm contact with the floor. If there is a gap between the pedals and the floor, the pedals may be damaged. In particular when placing the instrument on carpet, adjust this so

that the pedals firmly contact the floor.

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Adjuster

Connecting Headphones

The KR-7/5 has two jacks for plugging in headphones. This allows two people to listen through headphones simultaneously, making it very useful for lessons and when performing piano pieces for four hands. Additionally, this allows you to play without having to worry about bothering others around you, even at night.

Plug the headphones into the Phones jack located at the

bottom left of the piano.

Connecting headphones will automatically mute the sound from the internal speakers.

The headphone volume is adjusted by the [Volume] knob of the KR-7/5.

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Phones jack x 2

NOTE

Use Stereo headphones.

Some Notes on Using Headphones

•To prevent damage to the cord, handle the headphones only by the headset or the plug.

•Connecting the headphones when the volume of connected equipment is turned up may result in damage to the headphones. Lower the volume on the KR-7/5 before plugging in the headphones.

•Listening at excessively high volume levels will not only damage the headphones, but may also cause hearing loss. Use the headphones at a moderate volume level.

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