Piano with pedalboard

[llhyperdude]

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.

[in_love_with_liszt]

I read that Alkan wrote some music for the pedalboard piano...

[donjuan]

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

[thomas_williams]

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.

[steve]

It's called a pedalier, and Alkan did indeed write for it (and played one very often), including a duet for four feet only!