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A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
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Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.
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A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
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A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
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The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.
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A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
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The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
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Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
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Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.
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Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
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In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
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A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. 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. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
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A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys.
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A pedal curve or surface.
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Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
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The act of measuring by paces.
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