NOUN
- a pedal on a piano that lifts the dampers from the strings and so allows them to continue vibrating
How To Use sustaining pedal In A Sentence
- He uses rubato more liberally, and also the sustaining pedal; Perahia doesn't sacrifice clarity for color.
- When she played Satie on her own, I noticed she used the sustaining pedal sparingly.
- Part of Gould's achievement is that his refusal to use the sustaining pedal puts the guts back into Bach.
- He uses rubato more liberally, and also the sustaining pedal.
- Some of the tonal increases, however require better use of the sustaining pedal.
- Arrange your feet on the soft and sustaining pedals in readiness to carry out instructions - always clearly marked in the score.
- In this period the piano was beginning to replace the harpsichord and clavichord in popularity, and allowed for new experimental sonorities and the use of the sustaining pedal.
