Difference between Pedal Point and Pedal

PEDAL POINT vs PEDAL: NOUN

A sustained bass note
A sustained bass pitch.
A note, usually in the bass and on the tonic or the dominant, sustained through harmonic changes in the other parts.

A foot-operated lever used for actuating or controlling a mechanism, as in a loom, sewing machine, piano, or organ.
A sustained bass note
A lever that is operated with the foot
A similar foot-operated part attached to a crank and used for powering various devices, such as a bicycle.
A pedal point.
A pedal keyboard.
A foot or footlike part.
A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
In geometry, a pedal triangle (which see, under triangle).
A pedal curve or surface.
Any part of a machine or apparatus which is intended to receive and transmit power from the foot of the operator; a treadle: as, the pedals of a bicycle.
In musical instruments, a foot-lever; a metal or wooden key or projecting bar operated by the foot. , ,
Same as organ-point.
A pedal curve or surface, or one of which another is the pedal curve or surface.
A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

Of or relating to the feet
Of or relating to a pedal.
Of or relating to a foot or footlike part.
An organ which has pedals or a range of keys moved by the feet; that portion of a full organ which is played with the feet.
The note which is held or sustained through an organ point. See Organ point, under Organ.
The curve or surface which is the locus of the feet of perpendiculars let fall from a fixed point upon the straight lines tangent to a given curve, or upon the planes tangent to a given surface.
Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zoöl.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk.
Of or relating to the foot.

To work a pedal; use the pedals, as of a piano, organ, bicycle, etc.
In geometry, pertaining to the feet of transversals on to the sides of a triangle through a given point and the vertices.
Pertaining to or connected with a foot or the feet: as, pedal extremities.
Technically— Of or pertaining to a foot-like part of the body, as of a mollusk; podial: as, a pedal ganglion.
Of or pertaining to the pes or hind foot only: opposed to manual.
Pertaining to the feet of perpendiculars let fall from one point upon tangents to a fixed locus called a basis.
4 (ped′ al). In music, relating to a pedal.
In conchology: Any muscle of the foot or podium of a univalve. The posterior adductor of a bivalve, when there are two. See cuts under Astartidæ and Tridaenidæ.

Sound property, Electric organ, Tone of voice, Polychord, Bass fiddle, Bichord, Faburden, F clef, Electronic organ, Organ stop, Middle c, Musical scale, Vox angelica, Bass, Pedal

Pushers, Ramp, Peg, Pace, Foot, Rhythm, Ride, Brake, Foot lever, Pedal point, Cycle, Bicycle, Wheel, Bike, Treadle

Sound property, Electric organ, Tone of voice, Polychord, Bass fiddle, Bichord, Faburden, F clef, Electronic organ, Organ stop, Middle c, Musical scale, Vox angelica, Bass, Pedal

Fairy, Depress, Install, Ramp, Pace, Foot, Rhythm, Ride, Brake, Pedal point, Cycle, Bicycle, Wheel, Bike, Treadle

Riffs are frequently created with three main harmonic traits: modal scales progressions, tritone and chromatic progressions, and the use of pedal point.
As in the right hand, which function as a pedal point.
In the previous examples, a pedal point has nepitch.
When the pedal point is on a vertex of the original triangle, the pedal triangle degenerates into the altitude of the original triangle.
Thus, when the pedal point is the circumcenter of the triangle, the pedal triangle is always completely inside the original triangle.