Behringer eg2180 Mode D'Emploi

EUROGRAND

Advanced operation

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The EUROGRAND is equipped with three foot pedals performing 

the same functions as the pedals on an acoustic grand piano. 

Normally, the pedals are used in accordance with the instructions 

given in the music, where they are marked by special symbols. It 

is useful to know how sound is produced on an acoustic piano to 

better understand how the pedals work. 
When you strike a key, a hammer hits several strings for each note; 

the strings produce a tone with a defined pitch. When you let go 

of the key, a damper felt falls down on the strings to stop them 

from vibrating any longer.  As a result, the tone decays quickly. 

However, if the key is held down, the tone is sustained for a while 

before it decays completely.  In this case, the tone decays only 

after a certain time.
This decay characteristic can be influenced using the three foot 

pedals.

 

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 The soft pedal produces a 

soft and intimate sound. Use this pedal for particularly 

soft musical passages (pianissimo).  

 

On an acoustic piano this soft sound results from a 

smaller distance between hammer and strings. On 

a grand piano, however, the position of the hammer 

changes, so that the hammer does not hit all strings.

Press the pedal to dampen all tones played afterwards with 

1) 

the pedal down.
Let go of the pedal for normal playing.

2) 

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Use the sostenuto pedal 

to sustain individual tones. The notes already played 

– as long as they have not yet decayed – will be 

sustained as soon as you press the pedal. All notes 

played subsequently will be dampened as described 

above. This allows you to play and sustain a certain 

note using the pedal, while all subsequent tones will 

be played in a staccato (detached) manner.  

 

When you sustain single notes on an acoustic piano 

using the sostenuto pedal, the damper felts of the 

notes already played do not dampen the strings when 

you release the keys, but are held in their position.

Play the notes to be sustained.

1) 

Press the pedal to sustain the tones you just played.

2) 

Play the next notes. These are played with normal decay.

3) 

Release the pedal for normal playing. 

4) 

Damper/Forte pedal (right): The damper  pedal al-

 

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lows you to sustain the notes already played (and 

held) plus all subsequent notes, without having to 

hold the keys down. The damper pedal is often used 

to achieve a richer sound. This is the pedal that is 

used most often. You can also use it very subtly, for 

example, by holding it down only half-way. 

 

On the acoustic piano notes are sustained by keeping 

all the damper felts in their raised position even after 

releasing the keys. This allows the notes played to 

decay quite naturally. 

Play the notes to be sustained.

1) 

Press the pedal to sustain the notes you just played plus all 

2) 

subsequent notes.
Release the pedal for normal playing.

3) 

The EUROGRAND is equipped with two headphone jacks located 

on the underside of the playing console (front left). Headphones 

are  ideal  for  practising  without  disturbing  others. The  second 

headphone  jack  allows  another  person,  for  example  a  music 

teacher, to listen as well so that piano lessons can also be held 

using headphones.

Use the MAIN VOLUME control to turn the volume down 

1) 

(move the slide control to the left half of its control range).

Connect your headphones to a free headphone jack on the 

2) 

underside of the playing console.
While playing adjust the volume as desired using the MAIN 

3) 

VOLUME control.

If required, the SPEAKERS button allows you to switch the 

4) 

built-in loudspeakers of the EUROGRAND on or off.

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The following chapters provide information on advanced operating 

functions of the EUROGRAND.

Many  advanced  operating  functions  of  the  EUROGRAND  are 

available in EDIT mode. The following sections describe how to 

adjust these functions in EDIT mode. 

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lect a function and adjust its parameters. 
Keep  pressing  the  SELECT  button  in  the TEMPO/EDIT 

1) 

MODE section until the EDIT MODE LED lights up.

Scroll through the functions using the 

2) 

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 buttons, until the 

appropriate function (e.g. E1) has been selected.