It gives only the natural sounds of the diatonic gamut, and in order to obtain changes of modulation, the pedals must be employed.
Its seven pedals must be employed in different ways when notes are to be raised or lowered a semitone; chromatic passages easy of execution on the piano are almost impracticable on the harp.
There was a person over here from Mars last week who actually put his head in the saddle and wheeled his pedals with his hands.
And he added that if I didn't quit eating them my pedals would be full of gout and that even my cyclometer would squeak.
The pedals on Mattie Moore's wheel revolved, whether one worked them or not.
Prudence yearned for a good, soul-stirring coast, with her feet high up on the framework of the wheel, and the pedalsflying around beneath her skirts.
The pedals flew around beneath her, just as she had anticipated, and the wind whistled about her in a most exhilarating way.
It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution.
Defn: A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven bypedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.
Of a freewheel cycle, to run on while thepedals are held still.
When a rider sits well and pedals well, there is practically no steering to be done, for the machine will go automatically in the direction desired by the rider, or so at least it will appear.
The pedals should revolve twenty or thirty times at least, when given a good sharp spin with the hand, and there should be no perceptible shake in them.
The height of the pedals from the ground is a point which is never overlooked by a really good firm of cycle makers.
This done, he takes his seat, reaches for thepedals with his stockinged feet, tries an experimental 32-foot CCC, and then wanders gently into a Bach toccata.
He hunches his shoulders, reaches for thepedals with his feet, spreads out his hands and waits for the clapper-clawing to cease.
In the middle of the room was a rude sort of keyboard, with pedals below, like those of a large organ.
He seemed to find the pedals intuitively, and at every peal of thunder, which shook the tower to its foundations, he would open his mouth, a toothless cavern, and shout aloud.
At the back of the loom is still another cross piece, underneath which pedals are fastened.
When a sufficient length of plain cloth has been woven, the written pattern for the weaving of the border design must be faithfully consulted and the right pairs of pedals pressed down in proper order for the weaving of the pattern.
This work in pattern design is wrought by the use not of two pedals and harnesses, right and left, as used in the first three problems, but by the use of several additional harnesses.
If then the operator should throw down pedals 1 and 3 together, and alternately 2 and 4 also together, the warp threads would be crossed exactly as in plain weaving.
Following in order, the next threepedals and connected harnesses are numbered 2, 3, and 4 to correspond with the same numbers in the pattern.
The occupant of the rear seat contributes his part of the power with his feet on pedals of the shaft that carries the sprocket wheels.
This wheel has bicycle cranks and pedals and carries a seat or a hobby horse.
On one the back wheel went around three times while the pedals went around once; on the other the back wheel went around four and a half times while the pedals went around once.
The "trap-action" consists of the pedals and the parts which convey motion to the action proper.
In all modern organs there is a panel above the pedals which will come out and admit the mechanic to the bellows, straps, springs, etc.
He slipped into the little music room where the piano had been installed, turned a handspring on the floor, and then sat down and played chopsticks on the piano with all the pedals on, till Ma had to send Emily in to stop him.
The organ died away with a soft crash of the keys and pedals as if they too leaped up to see; the scent of the lilies swept sickeningly up in a great wave on the top of the silence.
For a while, the donks were wavering and their pedals unreliable; but after the first hour they meandered along quite acceptably.
It was Chopin who systematized the art of pedalling and showed us how to use both pedalsin combination to produce those wonderful effects of color which are so necessary in the performance of his music.
While the subject is of necessity foreshortened, he says some practical things about the use of the pedals in Chopin's music.
Another story is of one or the other working the pedal rods--the pedals being broken.
He plays forte and piano with the pedals but not with the hand; takes tenths as easily as I do octaves, and wears studs with diamonds.
The simultaneous use of both pedals is a modern virtuoso effect and a very charming one, for the damper pedal prolongs the gentle tones produced by the use of the soft pedal.
Finding an opening he ran forward and jumped into the air, and began to work his pedals vigorously.
The change was quickly effected, Jim being eager to feel the big steering wheel in his grasp, his feet on the pedals in front, with the single thought in his mind that the Ajax was run and controlled by his hand alone.
That just made him jump again, and this time he landed right at the pedals of the organ.
The organ's pedalsand bellows sounded louder than ever, but Bess kept pumping her feet up and down, faster and faster.
This thread is forced home by a light beam suspended from the roof, and then, the position of the pedals being reversed, the woof thread is shot back again between the reversed threads of the warp.
Two pairs of bamboos are joined together by thin twine loops, and, being suspended from the roof, are also joined to twopedals near the floor.
The safety cycle is always "geared up"--that is, one turn of the pedals will turn the rear wheel more than once.
THE FREE WHEEL is a device for enabling the driving-wheel to overrun the pedals when the rider ceases pedalling; it renders the driving-wheel "free" of the driving gear.
The organ pedals are connected to the pallets by an action similar to that of the keys.
One turn of the pedals on a machine of this gear would propel the rider as far as if he were on a high "ordinary" with the pedals attached directly to a wheel 70 inches in diameter.
Music] In this example the E-flat must be very delicately accented and both pedals freely used.
Footnote 219: For a complete and illuminating treatise on the pedals and their artistic use, see the aforesaid two volumes of Pedal Studies by Arthur Whiting (G.
Three pairs of feet began to pump the pedals desperately.
Work the pedals and get a good start," advised Bob.
He leaped into the saddle, started the machine off by means of the pedals and soon was puffing down the road.
He worked the pedals frantically, but it was of no use.
The morning was a sparkling June morning, dewy and fragrant, and the sunlight burnished the handles and pedals of the friends' bicycles standing on the piazza unheeded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: choir; console; echo; fingerboard; great; ivories; keyboard; keys; manual; pedal; solo; swell
