Editing Pedal keyboard (section)

===Use on instruments other than organs===

====Pedal harpsichord and clavichord====
[[File:Peter Watchorn pedal harpsichord.jpg|thumb|left|[[Peter Watchorn]] plays a pedal harpsichord by Hubbard & Broekman, Boston, 1990]]
Pedal keyboards were developed for the [[clavichord]] and [[harpsichord]]s during the Baroque era so that organists could practise the pedal parts of their organ repertoire when they had no-one available to work the [[bellows]] for a church organ or, in the wintertime, to avoid having to practice on a church organ in an unheated [[Church (building)|church]]. [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] owned a pedal harpsichord and his organ trio sonatas BWV 525–530, [[BWV 582|Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582]], [[BWV 565|Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565]], and other works sound well when played on the instrument.

====Pedal piano====
[[Image:Pedal Piano 3.JPG|thumb|150px|An upright pedal piano]]
The [[pedal piano]] (or pedalier piano)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.loguerhythm.com/Images.htm |title=''Images'' notes |access-date=2008-01-24 |author=Logue, Karl |year=1997 |work=Logue Rhythm Productions |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622200646/http://www.loguerhythm.com/Images.htm |archive-date=2007-06-22 }}</ref> is a kind of [[piano]] that includes a pedalboard<ref>{{cite book |last=Belt |first=Philip |title=The Piano |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0X3FoI_Z6cQC |year=1997 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |location=[[New York City]] |isbn=0-393-30518-X |page=150 }}</ref>

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 in music|1785]].  [[Robert Schumann]] had an upright pedal piano with 29 notes. In the 21st century, pedal pianos, the [[Doppio Borgato]] are made in the [[Luigi Borgato|Borgato]] workshop in [[Italy]]. The bass pedalboard has 37 notes, A0 to A3 (rather than the standard 30 or 32 on an organ).

====Carillon====
Some large carillon systems for playing church bells include a pedalboard for the lowest-pitched bells. Carillon pedal keys activate a pull-down coupler that visibly moves the keys of the manual clavier and heavy clappers for the largest bells.  These keys resemble the "button keys" of early organs, and are played by the player's toes.  Because this non-legato technique involves no sliding, shoes with leather soles are not required.
[[Image:CarillonKeyboardPlummerBldg.JPG|thumb|left|100px|[[Carillon]] keyboard for playing church bells; the pedals play the lowest-pitched bells.]]