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 the interested listener hoped that the accompanist would force the tone to cover it a little, and put on the loud pedal.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
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 Nina Wilcox Putnam
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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 Ernst Mach
