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A pedalboard, pedal keyboard or pedal clavier is a musical keyboard that is played with the feet. Pedalboards are found at the bottom of electronic and pipe organ consoles, and on other instruments such as the pedal harpsichord and the rare pedal piano. Pedalboards can even be built into completely separate, independent instruments, such as the Moog Taurus bass pedals. The layout of a pedalboard is conceptually the same as that of a manual keyboard, with long pedals for the natural notes of the Western musical scale, and shorter pedals, usually darker in color, for the sharps and flats. The arrangement of the pedals can be either radial (converging toward the player) or parallel, and can be either concave (with the pedals near the center lower than those at either end) or level. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 471 KB) Summary A 30-note pedalboard of a Rieger organ Author: thSoft Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Expression pedal is a control pedal found on electronic and pipe organs and many digital synthesizers. ...
Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄÏγανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ...
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Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄÏγανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ...
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The pedal piano is a kind of piano that includes a pedal keyboard, enabling notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the pipe organ. ...
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A manual is a keyboard designed to be played with the hands on a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. ...
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By using the feet to play an independent part, the musician is able to play three distinct lines rather than two, adding another layer to the music. On a pipe organ with a divided pedal 'coupler', four separate lines can be played, one with each hand, and one with each foot. The ability to play an independent line frees the hands for playing more intricate music on the manuals. The pedalboard is most commonly used to produce low-pitched notes for bass accompaniment. This gives pipe organ music its powerful foundation, and frees the left hand from having to cover the bass register. The pedals also have other, less common uses, such as playing the cantus firmus of a chorale prelude. Pipe organs provide this flexibility by allowing the player to control which pipes are linked to the pedals. On a modern electronic organ or standalone pedalboard, the pedals may produce an even wider variety of sounds. As a noun, a part is a section of a greater whole. ...
Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄÏγανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ...
In music, a cantus firmus (fixed song) is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition, often set apart by being played in long notes. ...
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History The first idea of using pedals on a pipe organ was born when the organists experienced the need to hold low notes uninterruptedly in order to support polyphony. It was then simply a question of some pins placed at height of the feet which made it possible to actuate the lowest notes of the keyboard via a coupler mechanism (probably a simple cord strung between the pin and the level of the keyboard). This mechanism is found as far back as the thirteenth Century. One finds the use of the pedals itself in the fifteenth century and undoubtedly for reasons of mechanical complexity, it will be often independent, i.e. without couplers. The pedals on French organs were, until the beginning of the nineteenth century, comprised of of tenons or small pieces of wood, projected out of the floor, on two rows which could be flat, a little or very tilted. At the same time, German organs used more convenient pedals, composed of “steps” lengthened and brought closer from/to each other, so that the executant could actuate them either of the point of the foot, or of the heel. The spacing of the steps was adjusted so that with the depression, the foot inserts only one key is pressed at a time. At the beginning of seventeenth century, pedalboards of large organs encompassed 28 to 30 notes. Johann Sebastian Bach’s pedalboard will have used this compasse, although the keys themselves would still have been quite short, preventing the use of the heel. In England, one built pedals only in 1790 without indendent stops, speaking solely through the coupler system. To compensate for it, some 16’ stops were added to the manual keyboards. Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany // The pipe organ (Greek ὄÏγανον, órganon) is a musical instrument that produces sound by admitting pressurized air through a series of pipes. ...
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Design Pedalboards range in size from 13 notes (an octave, conventionally C2-C3) to 32 notes (two and a half octaves, C2-G4). It is common to find 30 note pedalboards (which stop at F4) on pipe organs, which can cause problems playing the small number of classical pieces which require the higher notes. Smaller pedalboards, typically 13 to 20 notes, are usually found on small spinet organs or electronic bass pedal units, and usually feature short, parallel pedals. On an organ, such pedals are often positioned to the left side of the player; the right foot in this case covers expression pedals, such as the swell pedal. Larger pedalboards are centered with respect to the playing position, to facilitate two-footed pedalling, and usually incorporate long pedals which extend beneath the player. Twenty-five-note pedalboards are found on medium-sized electronic organs; 30- and 32-note boards are the province of pipe organs and high-end electronic console organs. The current industry standard for large organs in the US is the AGO pedalboard, a concave, radial, 32-note board. In Great Britain, the Royal College of Organists or RCO promulgates a similar design. The German Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister (BDO) has both a radial standard and a parallel (or straight) standard. The classic Hammond electronic organ, invented in the 1930s and popular for decades thereafter. ...
Bass pedals are an electronic musical instrument consisting of a pedalboard and tone generation circuitry. ...
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The Royal College of Organists or RCO, based in Birmingham, England, is the United Kingdoms national body charged with promoting organ and choral music and overseeing musical education and training for organists and choral directors. ...
The BDO (Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister, or Federation of German Master Organ Builders), established in 1895, is a professional association of organ builders and related businesses located in Germany. ...
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| Because the pedals on a full-length pedalboard extend beneath the player, such a board requires a wide bench, typically a purpose-built organ bench. Though some organ benches are adjustable in height, most require tall organists (those about six feet and greater) to use wooden blocks to elevate the bench to a height which will allow their legs to move freely. Otherwise, such organists would be cramped and have to lift their legs excessively. Tall organists can also have a problem in which the lowest keyboard (manual) is too low for the player to fit their knees comfortably under the console. A manual is a keyboard designed to be played with the hands on a pipe organ, harpsichord, clavichord, electronic organ, or synthesizer. ...
Other controls are often located near the pedalboard; these can include expression pedals and toe pistons (or switches on electric instruments) for changing registration swiftly. This complexity, when added to the organist's job of playing the manuals, requires organists to possess what is perhaps the highest degree of coordination to be found in the musical world.
Technique
As its name indicates, the pedals are a keyboard designed to be played with the feet. it thus requires a specific training which belongs to the training of the organist. There are two schools of pedal technique which can be summarised as - toe-only technique
- heel-and-toe technique.
As will be seen, the arguments for both techniques are strong. Modern tuition involves the teaching of both techniques. The first is used for baroque music, that of Bach and the old French composers, while heel-and-toe is used for more complex pedal work.
Toe-only technique The early pedalboards, and those manufactured up to the seventeenth century were such that only that balls of the foot can be used. The toe-only technique teaches a manner of touching the pedals which consists of using the point of the feet and prohibits at first sight the use of the heels. There are two justifications for using this: - Initially, it is regarded as “history”, research of the musicologists tend to prove that it is that which was always used by traditional musicians, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and its precursors. The majority of the large pedal solos of Bach can be played using only the toes (c.f. toccatas BWV 540, 564 and 566).
- In the second place, it is regarded as natural from the physiological point of view. To play with the point of the feet makes it possible to use the articulation of ankle to control the depression and to raise it from the keys. The only articulation which makes it possible to control the depression and to raise it of the heel, it is the thigh, which has as a consequence a less high degree of accuracy and larger an inertia. Moreover the raised notes (the 'black notes') are inaccessible to the heels.
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Heel-and-toe technique The heel-and-toe technique teachs a manner of using the pedals which consists of the use of double movement movement and rotation of the ankle to use the toe or the heel in the pressing and raising it from the keys. This technique has also its defenders and its justifications: - Certain works of Johann Sebastian Bach are obviously and technically written so that the features of pedal are carried out by using both the toes and the heel. For example the Prelude and Fugue in D (BWV 532) that Bach composed to demonstrate his pedal virtuosity. The fugue subject can only be played with heels and toes. Played with the toes alone it would involve difficult and risky overlapping.
- Legato playing is also facilitated by heel-toe alternation. This allows legato (smooth) playing with just one foot
- In works written for the organ starting from the end of nineteenth, composers require more virtuosity on the pedals than ever. Maurice Duruflé, Marcel Dupre and Jean Langlais, for example, ask for chords of 3 or 4 notes with the pedal, successions of thirds, fourths or fifths, which it is obviously completely impossible to realize with the points alone.
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In music, a fugue (IPA: ) is a type of contrapuntal composition. ...
Maurice Duruflé (January 11, 1902 in Louviers – June 16, 1986 in Paris) was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue. ...
Marcel Dupré Marcel Dupré (May 3, 1886–May 30, 1971), was a French organist and composer. ...
Jean Langlais (15 February 1907 – May 8, 1991) was a French composer of modern classical music and organist. ...
Technique for popular music
 A 25-note pedalboard on a Hammond Organ. While it is playable by both feet, the organist here is using only her left foot, while she works the organ's expression pedal with her right foot in order to influence the music's dynamics and overall volume. The railing beneath the bench provides a place to rest the feet when not playing. In popular music, especially in custom arrangements and music that incorporates improvisation, the pedalling style can be more varied and idiosyncratic. With shorter pedalboards designed to be played primarily with the left foot, for instance, the player often greatly restricts or entirely omits the use of the heel, working the pedals with light touches of the toes; this allows swift coverage of the pedalboard. Even on a larger pedalboard designed for playing with both feet, the organist may confine the right foot to the expression pedal or pedals, but playing the pedalboard with both feet usually makes the music flow much more smoothly. Image File history File links Hammond25. ...
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Expression pedal is a control pedal found on electronic and pipe organs and many digital synthesizers. ...
Precise pedalling with both feet requires both nimble movement and a good feel for the pedals. To this end, many organists, especially classical performers, wear special organ shoes. Some, usually players of electronic instruments, play shoeless (a famous example being jazz organist Rhoda Scott, who is known as the Hammond organ’s “Barefoot Contessa” and “The Barefoot Lady”). Organmaster organ shoes, in womens (L) and mens (R) styles. ...
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