soft-pedal
71mute — Synonyms and related words: abiotic, acoustic tile, allophone, alveolar, anaudic, antiknock, aphasic, aphonic, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, azoic, baffle, baffler, baton, bearer, bilabial, bit player,… …
72muzzle — Synonyms and related words: Oregon boat, acoustic tile, antiknock, antlia, asphyxiate, baffler, bazoo, beak, beezer, bilbo, bill, bond, bonds, bottle up, bridle, bugle, camisole, censor, chains, chaps, choke, choke off, chops, clamp down on,… …
73lower — I v 1. let down, drop, depress; thrust down, detrude, plunge, immerse, engulf, souse, douse; let sink, vail, dip, submerge, submerse; bury, sink, put down; raze, level, bring down, fell, demolish; bend down, couch, duck. 2. reduce, decrease,… …
74play down — verb understate the importance or quality of he played down his royal ancestry • Syn: ↑background, ↑downplay • Ant: ↑play up, ↑foreground (for: ↑background) …
75una corda — ˈünəˈkȯrdə adverb (or adjective) Etymology: Italian, literally, one string; from the fact that the soft pedal shifts the hammers so that they do not strike all the strings available for each note : with soft pedal depressed used as a direction… …
76Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven) — The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1821. It is the central piano sonata in the group of three opp. 109 ndash;111 which he wrote between 1820 and 1822, and the thirty first of his published… …
77forte-piano — noun a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑piano, ↑pianoforte • Derivationally related forms: ↑pianistic (for: ↑piano), ↑ …
78Bartolomeo Cristofori — Photo of a 1726 portrait of Bartolomeo Cristofori. The original was lost in the Second World War. Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor… …
79quiet — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Buddha like composure, Oriental calm, abate, aesthetic, allay, appease, arrange, arrangement, array, artistic, asleep, at peace, at rest, ataraxia, ataraxy, awful silence, back door, backstairs, backward, becalm …
80General MIDI — or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. While MIDI itself provides a protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level (e.g. that …
