2. Verb. (third-person singular of pedal) ¹
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Definition of Pedals
1. pedal [v] - See also: pedal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedals
Literary usage of Pedals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"Each of the seven pedals acts upon one note of the diatonic scale of С flat major
... The pedals remain in the notches until released by the foot, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"Radiating pedals, struck from a centre Dome distance to the rear of the organ
... Concave pedals, slightly rising at the extreme right and left to meet the ..."
3. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"Sometimes these pedals are built in a fan-like radiation from the player, ...
There are also mechanical pedals upon the organ, such as the swell pedal, ..."
4. Organ Registration: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Distinctive Quality of by Everett Ellsworth Truette (1919)
"Double-acting" pedals or pistons give the specific combination of stops by ...
Movable" combination pedals or pistons move the draw-stops and in modern ..."
5. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"There remain to be mentioned pedals, called also pedal- points and organ-points;
... Thus we have the lower pedals (the only ones which justify their name), ..."
6. The Story of the Organ by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"... concussion bellows, wind-gauge, composition pedals, horizontal bellows, and
Cumming's improvement in their construction, hydraulic and gas engines for ..."
7. The Musical World (1888)
"Pedal pipes extend one octave above pedals. 3 Composition pedals to Swell, ...
Eight Compositions pedals ; four acting symmetrically on the Great aud Pedal ..."
8. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"Thus we have the lower pedals (the only ones which justify their name), the higher
pedals, and the inner pedals.° In whatever register it is placed the ..."
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