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Definition of Loud pedal

1. Noun. A pedal on a piano that lifts the dampers from the strings and so allows them to continue vibrating.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loud Pedal

Literary usage of Loud pedal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1897)
"The damper pedal may properly be called a loud pedal for three reasons, ... On this account the damper pedal mny properly be called the "loud pedal. ..."

2. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"The piano damper- pedal is often miscalled the loud pedal, but it should be used ... Pedal, open or loud pedal. That which raises the dampers and allows the ..."

3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"The loud pedal of the piano, by which the tone is increased and extended. ... Synonym of loud pedal. pedal, piano A piano having a pedal keyboard ..."

4. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"... F, G, A. The middle pedal, which we have called the " loud pedal," is of little value, and many players take it off the instrument altogether. ..."

5. Pedalling in Pianoforte Music by Algernon H. Lindo (1922)
"I.—The loud pedal. The tendency to call the right pedal the " loud " pedal still exists, and is hard to eradicate, and when it is not called so, ..."

6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Producing a low, sweet tone with the soft pedal, he enriches and sustains it by simultaneously depressing the loud pedal, which, thus used, is not a loud ..."

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