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sostenuto pedal

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

noun

  1. See sustaining pedal
    another word for sustaining pedal

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