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

The sweet voice was still rising, and she longed that the accompanist would force the tone to cover it a little, and put the loud pedal on.

From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus

"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

A bar, L, passing along under all the damper lifters, is raised by depressing the loud pedal.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald

Well, anyways, after she had got "Soft and Low" going strong with the loud pedal and no expression, I opened the first envelope.

From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox