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Music Notation The first way is with the “ped” and asterisk symbols. The “ped” marking indicates that you should press the pedal down, while the asterisk indicates that you should release the pedal. Alternatively, a line below the staff also indicates when to depress and release the pedal.

The one on the right is the damper lift pedal or the "loud pedal" and the one on the left is the "una corda" or soft pedal. The dampers are blocks of felt that normally sit on the piano strings to stop them from making noise. In music it is just as important to stop the sound as it is to start it.

foot The “ped” in “pedal” derives from the Latin word “pes, pedis” (foot).

Ped. (or sometimes just P.) means pedal down. I come to another Ped. in the score.

Ped- conveys multiple meanings, from different Latin and Ancient Greek root words: 'Relating to feet', in words (e.g. pedestrian, pedicure) derived from Latin pes, genitive pedis, 'foot', from the Proto-Indo-European stem *ped- with the same meaning.

pedal: part of a bike for the 'foot' pedometer: instrument which measures the 'feet' that someone walks. pedestrian: one who walks around on her 'feet' biped: animal which walks on two 'feet' quadruped: animal which walks on four 'feet'

Most modern day acoustic grand pianos will have two other pedals: The 'una corda' pedal (left pedal) and the sostenuto pedal (middle pedal). If you only have two pedals in total on your piano, as many uprights do, the right will be the sustain pedal and the left will be the una corda pedal.

Modern pianos usually have three pedals, from left to right, the soft pedal (or una corda), the sostenuto pedal, and the sustaining pedal (or damper pedal). Some pianos omit the sostenuto pedal, or have a middle pedal with a different purpose such as a muting function also known as silent piano.

The Latin root word ped means foot. The Greek root word ped means child.

On written music, pedal markings show where you place your foot down, and when to raise it again. Each pedal is marked slightly differently, but the principle is the same: Sustain (damper) pedal: Down = “Ped.” Up = “✱” Sostenuto pedal: Down = “Sost.

having a foot -ped in American English combining form. a combining form with the meaning “having a foot” of the kind specified by the initial element.

The Latin root word ped means foot.