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1. In the piano, two or threa pedals pedal extension are used; (a) the damper, or loud The same as damper pedal or sustaining pedal. The loud pedal of the pedal, which lifts the dampers from piano, by which the tone is increased the strings and increases the tone; and extended. See also damper (b) the soft pedal which acts in ci.c of several ways, introducing a muffler between the hammers and the strings, pedal-harp pedal, or causing the hammers to strike from A double-action harp; one with a shorter distance, or moving the pedals to produce the semitones. The hammers so that they strike but one modern harp, perfected in 1820 by Sebastian Erard. string instead of the usual two or pedal keys three; (c) often a third pedal, called the sustaining pedal, which holds up 1. In organ building, a set of keys the dampers after they have been played with the feet. lifted causing the hammer to remain 2. The separate keys of any keyupon the strings, thus sustaining the board played with the feet. tone. The abbreviation ped. is placed pedal monochord at the beginning of a pa age where A one-stringed pedal; a form of the damper pedal is required and the soft pedal, which causes the hammers to move so that they strike but one % * 4& + or u, -i string instead of the usual two or three. sign is placed at the end. When the soft pedal is required an exp res pedal note sion such as una cord a, one string, is The same as pedal point, or organ written above the pa age. The suspoint, an older term, now le often taining pedal is used at the discretion used. A note held by the pedal while of the performer. the harmony forming the remaining 2. The pipe organ has different parts is allowed to proceed. The term sorts of pedals: those in the pedal has its origin in organ playing, when keyboard that resemble the keys for a note, usually in the ba , is held on the hands, but are much larger; the the pedals while the rest of the harswell pedal, which controls the open mony progre es. ing of the shutters of the swell box; pedal, open and a number of others, which con- In the piano the damper pedal, trol the drawing of the stops. which, when depre ed, lifts the dam- 3. A pedal in the reed organ or harpers from the strings and increases monium is any one of the treadles the tone. Synonym of loud pedal, that are used to work the feeders of pedal, piano the bellows. A combination pedal in the organ 4. In the harp, any one of the foot that pushes in all but the softest stops. levers, which are used to shorten the pedal pianoforte strings and raise the pitch. There A piano having a pedal keyboard 412 393 pedal pianoforte pentachord attachment by which the low octaves pedals, composition may be played, in the same way as A system of mechanism in the organ pedals. organ, operated by a metal lever pedal pipes which enables the player to control The pipes in an organ sounded by the use of several stops at once by his the pedal keyboard. feet. Such pedals are placed above pedal point the pedal keyboard, Synonym of pedal note, pedal tone pedals, radiating or organ point. See also pedal note, See radiating pedals. pedal tone pedarii (pe-da'-rT-i) Lat. n. See pedal note. pedicular i i (pe-dik-ii-la'-ri-i) In the performance of GreekLat.music, n. Pedale (pe-da'-le) Ger. n. those who beat time; this was done The American History and Encyclopedia of Music - Dictionary