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

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

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 Mach, Ernst

Let a man with an average ear, however uncultivated, strike the C low down on a good piano-forte, keeping his foot on the loud pedal.

From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George