loud pedal

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.

"Or a typewriter, with the loud pedal down and all the stops out?" pursued the facetious Philip.

And placing herself, pressing down the patent-leather shoe on the loud pedal, she surged into a waltz as foolish and as conventionally alluring as her own eyes.

There was a piano in that room and I went to it, put my foot on the loud pedal and began to play.

"Oh, yes, sir," I responded, using the loud pedal to prove my assertion.