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

I'll say one thing for her, right or wrong, she never got off the loud pedal on that prediction.

From The Right Time by Berryman, John

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

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

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