Home › Entities › general › Sustain pedal

Sustain pedal

piano pedal, typically the rightmost of 2 or 3 pedals, which moves all the dampers away from the strings, allowing them to vibrate freely, so that notes played continue to sound until the vibration naturally dies or the pedal is released
Thing general Q980862
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Sustain pedal

Summary

Sustain pedal ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Sustain pedal's image is recorded as Steinway grand piano - pedals.jpg[2].
  • Sustain pedal's subclass of is recorded as piano pedal[3].
  • Sustain pedal's Commons category is recorded as Sustain pedals[4].
  • Sustain pedal's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05zgr4[5].
  • Sustain pedal's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121hwx5g[6].
  • Sustain pedal's Google Product Taxonomy ID is recorded as 3324[7].

Why It Matters

Sustain pedal ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Sustain pedal. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sustain-pedal
MLA “Sustain pedal.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/sustain-pedal.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sustain-pedal_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Sustain pedal}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sustain-pedal}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Sustain pedal — https://4ort.xyz/entity/sustain-pedal (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/sustain-pedal · Last refreshed: