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noun Music.
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.
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Words nearby sostenuto pedal
sosatie,
Soseki,
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so-so,
sostenuto,
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How to use sostenuto pedal in a sentence
I strain and push and pedal and wonder, “When will this end?”
I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.
And when the AHA is reintroduced in parliament, as it inevitably will be, he can soft-pedal.
He'd pedal a few yards, then the handle bars would get away from him.
And together, they can successfully pedal a bike down a rather busy city street.
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!
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.
The pedal keys were almost invariably straight and the pedal boards flat.
It frequently leads to a player upsetting his Pedal combination when he has no desire to do so.
Metal buttons or pistons located on the toe piece of the pedal-board were introduced by the ingenious Casavant of Canada.
British Dictionary definitions for sostenuto pedal
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