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PEDAL PIANO [1 record]

Record 1 2010-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
DEF

A piano fitted with a pedal keyboard in addition to its ordinary one, used by organists for home practice

CONT

Schumann: Studies in Canon Form for Pedal Piano, Op. 56.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
DEF

Piano équipé d'un pédalier comme celui de l'orgue, dont les marches actionnaient les notes les plus graves du clavier par un système de tirasse ou des cordes propres.

CONT

Autrefois, les instruments du conservatoire étaient rue de Madrid [...] On pouvait regarder sous les jupes du clavecin doré de Ruckers-Taskin, sourire devant l'octobasse de Vuillaume, et gronder d'envie en tournant autour du piano à pédalier, en se disant que Schumann en avait eu un semblable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos de teclado
DEF

Piano equipado con un pedalero similar al del órgano.

PHR

Piano sin pedalero.

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