Pedal in a sentence

Most modern upright pianos also have three pedals: soft pedal, practice pedal and sustain pedal, though older or cheaper models may lack the practice pedal.

Original Sleishman twin pedal Drop-clutch main When using a double bass drum pedal, the foot which normally controls the hi-hat pedal moves to the second bass drum pedal, and so the hi hat opens and remains open.

Braking power versus pedal depression simply doesn’t feel linear, and I found myself often cursing the impossible-to-learn transition and odd brake pedal feel.

Officers said the 17-year-old from Kenly was pulling into a parking space in front of the building when he pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal and hit the building.

I jammed the brake pedal with my left foot, while at the same time trying to lift the throttle pedal with my right foot.

To evaluate the sound quality of a pedal, there's no substitute for being able to try the pedal out in person.

The log shows the accelerator pedal was pressed, or more accurately, it shows the voltages expected from an activated accelerator pedal.

It features a single-kick pedal drum and led to Taz Bentley being hired as a session drummer for their 1996 and 1998 albums, which have a combination of double-kick pedal and Bentley’s metal and jazz sensibilities.

Luckily, it appears that the brake pedal setup for the mail Jeep, which has an automatic transmission, had been adapted from a manual transmission CJ, which used a common shaft for the clutch and brake pedal.

A foot pedal lowers the bar and allows notes to ring freely; releasing the pedal engages the damper and stops any vibrating notes.

A footswitch pedal such as the "A/B" pedal routes a guitar signal to an amplifier or enables a performer to switch between two guitars, or between two amplifiers.

By using a looper pedal, a singer-guitarist in a one man band can play the backing chords to a song, loop them with the pedal, and then do a guitar solo over the chords.

In a modern car with a manual transmission the clutch is operated by the left-most pedal using a hydraulic or cable connection from the pedal to the clutch mechanism.

In the arcade version, a foot pedal is used to toggle between ducking and attacking positions. citation In console conversions, a button command replicates the foot pedal's functions.

Most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal.

On some pianos (grands and verticals), the middle pedal can be a bass sustain pedal: that is, when it is depressed, the dampers lift off the strings only in the bass section.

Open and closed hi-hat refer to notes struck while the two cymbals are apart or together (open or closed), while pedal hi-hat refers to parts or notes played solely with the pedal used to strike the two cymbals.

Pedal clavichord J. Verscheure Reynvaan: engraving of an eighteenth-century pedal clavichord main While clavichords were typically single manual instruments, they could be stacked, one clavichord on top of another, to provide multiple keyboards.

Pedal tones Trombone slide position "pedal tones".

This pedal keeps raised any damper already raised at the moment the pedal is depressed.