loud pedal
Example Sentences
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He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Or a typewriter, with the loud pedal down and all the stops out?" pursued the facetious Philip.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
"Oh, yes, sir," I responded, using the loud pedal to prove my assertion.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
Let a man with an average ear, however uncultivated, strike the C low down on a good piano-forte, keeping his foot on the loud pedal.
From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George
We will employ the first for exciting the notes, while we will allow the second to respond; after having first pressed upon the loud pedal, so as to render all the strings capable of motion.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
