Debussy notes that the entire piece should be played with the soft pedal.

James realized how this sounded and tried to soft pedal .

Guess I'd better put the soft pedal on him."

Either there is a perfectly wild noise or else a whisper with the soft pedal down.

The injury seemed not to bother the pianist, but did prevent him from using the soft pedal.

Thus the soft pedal was applied to mention of The Shadow.

They were under strict orders, though, to use the soft pedal; to keep out of sight unless the jobs went sour.

The soft pedal of the piano can be seen as having the effect of a mute.

He has developed a style of playing piano he terms "Soft Pedal."

Then the rider on the bike will soft pedal until the right foot is back and level with the left foot in the front.

"Then we had to soft pedal the racket when Gallanta took his rap.

Margo gave a soft pedal gesture as they were circling past the whale's tail.

Budd has developed a style of playing piano he terms "soft pedal," which can be described as slow and sustained.

The una corda pedal is also called the "soft pedal".

It is not clear whether the modern soft pedal descends directly from Cristofori's work or arose independently.

With CD-60, he changed the way the soft pedal shifts the hammers and all the parts that are between them and the keys.

How I cried on your shoulder to soft pedal the investigation and kick those Gypsies out of town?'

This audience was also attracted to the organization's ability to 'soft pedal doom and gloom while partying for the planet".

The pedal is still sometimes called the soft pedal because of its position, but it may have another name like modulation pedal.

Instead, they should insulate the floor, put the piano on a raised platform or, best of all, put a brick on the soft pedal.

On upright pianos, the soft pedal operates a mechanism which moves the hammers' resting position closer to the strings.

This fourth pedal works in the same way as the soft pedal of an upright piano, moving the hammers closer to the strings.

The soft pedal is normally kept down for the whole of a piece or the whole of a section of a piece.

In some case, a soft pedal could be a result of a master cylinder malfunction [source: 2CarPros].