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 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)

But whenever he'd ask she would put the loud pedal on the ukulele and burst into some beachy song about You and I Together in the Moonlight, Love.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

Remember too that the term "loud pedal" as applied to the sustaining pedal, as it properly is called, is incorrect.

From The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players by Kobbé, Gustav

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