piano pedal
Damper control lever
A piano pedal is one of the foot-operated levers at the base of a piano that modify the instrument's sound.
The sustain pedal (rightmost) lifts all dampers, allowing notes to ring; the soft pedal (leftmost) reduces volume; the sostenuto pedal (middle, on grand pianos) sustains only selected notes.
She held the piano pedal down through the final chord.
- sustainKeep something going continuously
- softYielding to touch
- keysLock-operating instruments
- footLeg's lowest part
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
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- pedalsaccelerator, foot brake, treadle
piano pedalpiano key
Depressible note activator
keyboard · piano keys · manual · ivories · black keys
piano pedalpiano key
Depressible note activator
hammer · string · damper · soundboard
piano pedalstrings
Thin flexible lines
soundboard · piano wire · hammers · dampers
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