pedal piano

American  

noun

1. a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.

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Example Sentences

His 1988 album for Eno’s Opal Records, “The White Arcades,” was powered by Budd’s “soft pedal” piano technique, which employed one of the instrument’s foot pedals to “soften” the notes while subtly changing their tones.

From Los Angeles Times

The works by Gounod on this CD are lumbering curiosities, but the depth and range of the pedal piano’s sound in the contrapuntal passages are fascinating.

From New York Times

It's almost three years since the pianist revealed his intention to build a Schumann CD around the Op 20 Humoreske and, it seems, he has finally found the right context for that work, in the five pieces that make up the late Gesänge der Frühe, and the rarely played Studies for Pedal Piano Op 56, which were arranged for two players by both Bizet and Debussy but which Anderszewski plays in his own arrangement for solo piano.

From The Guardian

Piotr Anderszewski Enigmatic, unpredictable but never ever dull, the Polish pianist frames his own arrangement of delectable rare Schumann, the Six Canonic Etudes for pedal piano, with another of his specialities, Bach's English Suites.

From The Guardian