<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Jurgen, In the Harvard Dictionary of Music, it's written as "Una corda [It.]" and explains that it is a direction in music to use the left pedal or soft pedal. Merle Mason (Piano Parts and Their Functions) for some reason spells it unacorda, but others (Reblitz, Larry Fine, et al.) agree with the Harvard Dictionary. Tom Cole Jurgen Goering wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid6791f77a23ac5f38d7ccf0be553e8ded@pianofortesupply.com">Calling all piano nomenclature experts: I am doing some translation work from German into English and I need to know: is it a una corda pedal or a una chorda pedal? (Besides being a shift pedal, I know...) I have found references to both in the Archives... thanks Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply (250) 754-2440 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@pianofortesupply.com">info@pianofortesupply.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pianofortesupply.com">http://www.pianofortesupply.com</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>