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autoharp
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« on: 11:08:50, 14-08-2008 »
I was asked recently if I knew of any pedal-pianos in either the UK or Ireland - and of anyone who has played one in concert. For those who are unfamiliar with this instrument, it is simply a piano (grand or upright) with a pedalboard, enabling bass notes to be played by the feet, as on a church organ.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:EwkP66Lo-04J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_piano+pedal+piano&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&client=safari

There are works by Schumann and (especially) Alkan: also, oddly enough, the first version of Saint-Saens's 2nd piano concerto.

The bassoonist William Waterhouse owned one and (peculiarly) one used to reside in a practice room at De Montfort University. Brentford Piano Museum?

I was a bit stumped a far as performers or potential performers were concerned. Kevin Bowyer? He plays some of the Alkan pieces - but on organ. Leslie Howard?
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richard barrett
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« Reply #1 on: 11:45:45, 14-08-2008 »
That sounds like the kind of thing Pianola would know about. There must surely be a few (decrepit) examples around, given that they used to be uased by organists for practicing. I know this is fantastically unhelpful, but I'm sure I remember seeing a pedalier for sale some years ago, though what I can't remember is when or in which country is was. Maybe it'll come back to me.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #2 on: 16:19:34, 14-08-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 11:45:45, 14-08-2008
I remember seeing a pedalier for sale some years ago, though what I can't remember is when or in which country is was.

Magnificent, Richard Smiley  I once had a note pushed under my door in a hotel-room in Leningrad, which had four words on it: "Someone called for you".   Perhaps it was you?  Wink
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« Reply #3 on: 16:49:06, 14-08-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 16:19:34, 14-08-2008
Quote from: richard barrett on 11:45:45, 14-08-2008
I remember seeing a pedalier for sale some years ago, though what I can't remember is when or in which country is was.

Magnificent, Richard Smiley  I once had a note pushed under my door in a hotel-room in Leningrad, which had four words on it: "Someone called for you".   Perhaps it was you?  Wink
I can't remember ever having been to Russia, but clearly that doesn't get us anywhere.
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« Reply #4 on: 20:30:37, 14-08-2008 »
Mozart wrote some as well, didn't he?  (no doubt Liszt also s**t out a couple of pedal-piano opuses in his spare time (didn't he have some ferocious variety of organ-cum-pedal piano in his house in weimar, or is my mind misleading me?))
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« Reply #5 on: 10:48:28, 16-08-2008 »
Anyone interested in pedal-pianos who also happens to be INCREDIBLY RICH will be interested to know that brand new concert pedaliers can be bought from http://www.borgato.it/doppioborgato.htm.
A snip at €248,500+vat.
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