damper pedal

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noun Music.

a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.

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Also called loud pedal, reverberation pedal, sustaining pedal .

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I strain and push and pedal and wonder, “When will this end?”
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I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.
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Changes in the level of subsidies and feed-in tariffs can put a damper on activity.
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And when the AHA is reintroduced in parliament, as it inevitably will be, he can soft-pedal.
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He'd pedal a few yards, then the handle bars would get away from him.
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That is one of the places that when the pianists come to, they get their foot hard on to the pedal and hold on to it—Herr Gott!
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
I had played that study to Tausig, and he found no fault with my use of the pedal; so I sat down thinking I could do it right.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
The pedal keys were almost invariably straight and the pedal boards flat.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
It frequently leads to a player upsetting his Pedal combination when he has no desire to do so.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Metal buttons or pistons located on the toe piece of the pedal-board were introduced by the ingenious Casavant of Canada.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller