What does una corde mean?

Answer 1

Unacorde is an Italian word that means "with the soft pedal depressed". The una corde pedal is the pedal on the far left of a piano that when depressed on a grand piano, shifts the entire action assembly to the right, causing only half of theoriginally struck strings on each note, except for the low bass notes because they are always on one string, to be struck. thus being much quieter. on most vertical pianos the una corde pedal raises the hammers to be twice as close to the strings as usual also making the sound quieter. the una corde pedal is more commonly called the "soft" pedal.