loud pedal

I'm just giving them a chance to use the loud pedal."

The Marine pilot kept his foot on the loud pedal all the way and made the trip in thirty-seven minutes.

The girl who had played the accompaniments sat at the piano and placed a decided foot on the loud pedal.

It has a loud pedal.

Too much loud pedal.

Step on the loud pedal in earnest and a giant ironclad fist launches you at the horizon with take-no-prisoners urgency.

It's truly a Faustian pact and while this engine is cleaner and more economical than ever, when your foot's on the loud pedal, hang the planet, you just want to get it on.

Bess and Walter's daughter Eunice (nicknamed Yooncie) was learning to play the piano; the pieces invariably found her stomping on the loud pedal with both feet and dragging her fingernail down the white or black keys.

"He sat down", she wrote in her unpublished biography, "the piano rocked, the floor shivered, the people swayed while he attacked the keyboard with his long skinny fingers, beating out a double rhythm with his feet on the loud pedal.

There was a great deal more clapping when she finished, and when this was over, as an encore, she gave a piece which imitated the sea; there were little trills to represent the lapping waves and thundering chords, with the loud pedal down, to suggest a storm.