page_title: Pedal keyboard
section_title: Pedal piano
hierarchical_section_title: Pedal keyboard / Design / Use on instruments other than organs / Pedal piano
caption_attribution_description: An upright piano with pedal board. The pedals are connected by string to the lower octaves of the piano keyboard, so the bass notes can be played with the feet, like on an organ.
context_page_description: A pedalboard is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. A pedalboard has long, narrow lever-style keys laid out in the same semitone scalar pattern as a manual keyboard, with longer keys for C, D, E, F, G, A and B, and shorter, higher keys for C♯, D♯, F♯, G♯ and A♯. Training in pedal technique is part of standard organ pedagogy in church music and art music.
  Pedalboards are found at the base of the console of most pipe organs, pedal pianos, theatre organs, and electronic organs. Standalone pedalboards such as the 1970s-era Moog Taurus bass pedals are occasionally used in progressive rock and fusion music. In the 21st century, MIDI pedalboard controllers are used with synthesizers, electronic Hammond-style organs, and with digital pipe organs. Pedalboards are also used with pedal pianos and with some harpsichords, clavichords, and carillons.
context_section_description: The pedal piano (or pedalier piano) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard
  There are two types of pedal piano:
  A pedal board integrated with a manual piano instrument, using the same strings and mechanism as the manual keyboard
  An independent, pedal played piano with its own mechanics and strings, placed below a regular piano
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart owned a fortepiano with independent pedals, built for him in 1785.  Robert Schumann had an upright pedal piano with 29 notes. In the 21st century, pedal pianos, the Doppio Borgato are made in the Borgato workshop in Italy. The bass pedalboard has 37 notes, A0 to A3 (rather than the standard 30 or 32 on an organ).
caption: An upright pedal piano
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