Editing Pedal keyboard (section)

====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.