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sostenuto pedal

American  

noun

Music.

  1. a pedal on a grand piano that raises the dampers, allowing the tone to be sustained for those strings struck at the time the pedal is depressed.

sostenuto pedal British  

noun

  1. another word for sustaining pedal

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