loud pedal

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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

This is popularly called the loud pedal, and the vulgarest use to which it can be put is to multiply the volume of tone.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

We let go the loud pedal of the second piano and pressing on the keys c e g of that instrument vigorously strike the harmony c e g on the first piano.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

The girl who had played the accompaniments sat at the piano and placed a decided foot on the loud pedal.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Catrina's foot was upon the loud pedal again.

From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton