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
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
There was a piano in that room and I went to it, put my foot on the loud pedal and began to play.
From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia
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.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
The harmonics of a pianoforte string can be easily demonstrated by the following experiment: Depress the "loud" pedal and strike any note in the bass a sharp blow.
From The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments by Miller, George Laing
