Pedal keyboard
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A pedalboard is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music. A pedalboard has long, narrow lever-style keys laid out in the same semit
The 30-note pedalboard of a Rieger organ
This 1609 organ shows the short, button-style pedals of early pedal setups
This 1776 diagram depicts the setup of the manuals and pedal keyboard
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Carillon
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A carillon is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are cast in bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and tuned in chromatic order so
Pedal keyboard
…electronic Hammond-style organs, and with digital pipe organs. Pedalboards are also used with pedal pianos and with some harpsichords, clavichords, and carillons (church bells). The first use of pedals on a pipe organ grew out of the need to hold bass drone notes, to support the polyphonic musical styles that…
A carillonist plays the 56-bell carillon of the Plummer Building in Rochester, Minnesota, US
The 56-bell carillon of Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mafra carillons at the Palace of Mafra, Portugal, the world's largest carillon ensemble
![Console of the carillon at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet [fr] in Maine-et-Loire, France](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Clavier_du_carillon.jpg/500px-Clavier_du_carillon.jpg)
Console of the carillon at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Cholet [fr] in Maine-et-Loire, France