u·na cor·da (  n kôrd)adv. & adj. Music With the soft pedal of the piano depressed. Used chiefly as a direction. [Italian : una, one + corda, string (so called because depressing the soft pedal causes only one string to be struck of the two or three provided for each note).] |
una corda [ˈuːnə ˈkɔːdə]
adj & adv
(Music, other) Music (of the piano) to be played with the soft pedal depressed
[Italian, literally: one string; the pedal moves the mechanism so that only one string of the three tuned to each note is struck by the hammer]
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