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Offline llhyperdude

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Piano with pedalboard
on: July 26, 2004, 04:59:29 AM
https://www.borgato.it/DoppioBorgato.html

I've never seen a piano like this. Is there actually music written specifically for this?

Looks very nice to me.
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Offline in_love_with_liszt

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Re: Piano with pedalboard
Reply #1 on: July 26, 2004, 05:18:14 AM
I read that Alkan wrote some music for the pedalboard piano...
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Offline donjuan

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Re: Piano with pedalboard
Reply #2 on: July 26, 2004, 07:49:19 AM
whoa, I would love to see someone play on that piano!  It looks like a hybrid of a piano and an organ.  I wonder what Liszt could do on something like that...
donjuan
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Offline thomas_williams

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Re: Piano with pedalboard
Reply #3 on: July 30, 2004, 11:42:37 PM
I've never seen one quite like that, but I've read that some pianos in the 1700s (or maybe 1800s) had pedalboards.  There is a picture of one in the book titled Keyboard Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which I found at the library.  It says that they were used as practice instruments by some organists.
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Offline steve

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Re: Piano with pedalboard
Reply #4 on: August 01, 2004, 02:02:17 AM
It's called a pedalier, and Alkan did indeed write for it (and played one very often), including a duet for four feet only!
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