Pedal piano

The first citation of a clavichord with pedalboard appeared around 1460 in a section dedicated to musical instruments in an encyclopedic treatise written by the scholar Paulus Paulirinus (1413-1471).

[5] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart owned a fortepiano with independent pedals, built for him in 1785 by Anton Walter.

The autograph manuscript of the Concerto in D minor K 466, composed the same year, shows a series of chords for the left hand plus bass notes an octave lower, covering about 2 1/2 measures.

The low bass notes could be an earlier version of the left hand part which Mozart neglected to cross out when he decided to replace them with chords.

This company makes the Doppio Borgato, an independent bass-register instrument connected to a pedal board, on which a concert grand can be placed.

[12][13][14] In recent years, performance of works for the pedal piano on that instrument, as opposed to on organ, has increased.