He transmitted to later builders the crucial ideas of Bartolomeo Cristofori ( the inventor of the piano ), ensuring their survival, and also invented the forerunner of the damper pedal.
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This is because the modern piano has a much longer sustain time than the instruments of Beethoven's time, so that a steady application of the damper pedal creates a dissonant sound.
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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 ).
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The extra keys are added primarily for increased resonance from the associated strings; that is, they vibrate sympathetically with other strings whenever the damper pedal is depressed and thus give a fuller tone.
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In this technique, the player presses the damper pedal slightly after striking the bar shortly enough so the recently struck note continues to ring, but long enough so that the previous note stops ringing.
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During the Classical era, the damper pedal was generally not used as it is in later music; that is, as a more or less constant amplification and modulation of the basic piano sound.
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Also, it has a device which allows the performer to raise all the dampers ( like the modern damper pedal ), and another that will only raise the treble dampers ( a typical feature on many early pianos ).
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Beethoven's Broadwood grand, presented as a gift to him from the Broadwood company in 1817, had an una corda pedal and a split damper pedal one half was the damper for the treble strings, the other was for the bass strings.
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The pedal mark described in the article is just an instruction to depress the damper pedal for the entire piece to lift the dampers . ( The damper pedal is also called the sustain pedal, or often just " the pedal " since it's the most often used pedal .)
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The pedal mark described in the article is just an instruction to depress the damper pedal for the entire piece to lift the dampers . ( The damper pedal is also called the sustain pedal, or often just " the pedal " since it's the most often used pedal .)
