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sustaining pedal

noun

  1. music a foot-operated lever on a piano, usually the right one of two, that keeps the dampers raised from the strings when keys are released, allowing them to continue to vibrate Compare soft-pedal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Don't use the sustaining pedal too frequently, not even as frequently as indicated on the rolls.

Have you ever tried singing a note into this instrument when the sustaining pedal is depressed?

Remember too that the term "loud pedal" as applied to the sustaining pedal, as it properly is called, is incorrect.

When the sustaining pedal squeaks, look first to the pedal, then to the wooden rods leading up to the damper rod.

To carry out his designs the third or sustaining pedal became necessary.

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