The Pedal Piano - With Roberto Prosseda

[@gracewenzel]

His talking about his struggle uncoupling the left hand from the feet gave me a laugh- reminded me of my first days learning to play the organ 😆 Been there!

[@padraicbrown6718]

Roberto, one thing you might want to consider, regarding sensitivity, is to play without shoes! Your feet are actually quite sensitive. I played the organ for a number of years when I was younger, and began learning with shoes, because that's what the teacher said. After determining that I "couldn't feel anything" with the shoes on, I kicked them off and discovered that toes, arches, heels and sides of the feet are every bit as sensitive as their hand counterparts. I never wore shoes again while at the organ. Up to you whether you wear socks or not in concert!

[@ericalbany]

I tend to agree- except that on one organ with worn pedals I managed to get a splinter in my toe!

[@padraicbrown6718]

@@ericalbany oof. That wouldn't be very pleasant!

[@lizlangauraceneenvellum8716]

It's likely he tried no shoes, but for consistency and foot health/support he went for very thin-soled ones.

[@christineroberts6759]

Thank you very much for your tutorial on the Pedal piano. I did wonder what all the foot pedals were for and now I know. I am only an amateur pianist in my 70's but it's very interesting to learn of other instruments. Thanks again.

[@MA-naconitor]

This, but combined with the Steinway two-manual piano!

[@foo0815]

It would be interesting to use a Bösendorfer Imperial with its additional bass notes as the lower piano and add a 32 foot stop (one octave lower than written)

[@JuliaPikalova]

That's amazing! Mindblowing. Bravo Roberto! Thank you for the video, dear LPO. I wonder if you have recorded this performance.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

I really need this if I'm going to be doing new song covers.

[@JesusPVZFAN2004]

It will could very interesting see younger kids playing this

[@bingola45]

"They can be in harmony...they can also be in contrast..." Yes. You could accompany something by Mozart or Schumann with a Joplin rag on pedals...

[@londonphilharmonicorchestra]

I’d quite like to hear that! :-)

[@elemtilas335]

Beautiful! As far as touch & sensitivity are concerned, I'd strongly suggest you try taking your shoes off. I started playing organ with shoes, but hated wearing them. Once I kicked off the shoes, the pedal board suddenly felt to my feet exactly how the keyboard felt to my hands.

[@londonphilharmonicorchestra]

Nice! From what I can remember from this film session, I think Roberto was wearing special shoes (Jazz shoes)- where the soles are thin enough for some sensitivity, with more flexibility, but with enough of a heel for some quick movements.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@londonphilharmonicorchestra It's called a Pianorgan aka Piano for Organists.

[@Tutnese]

Yay. I found one! This is amazing.

[@peterharrison5833]

Grazie per questo video. Molto interessante! Sinceremente, PMH

[@pardn]

Would love to hear some of Bach's works on this thing

[@benedictdsilva3954]

Thank you for that tutorial .... Well explained... Maybe some organ lesson can help....Fazioli is the other piano company that makes Pedal pianos..I see there is a mechanism. I wonder if the keyboard of the piano below gets damaged>?... Upright pedal pianos are also seen they work differently... its just one piano....

[@resultant64]

nice explanation.... i didnt know that the pedals could play in octaves...thank you

[@stephenbradley6285]

Thankyou

[@amyrvonbathelcantusioii9498]

great!!!

[@matthewclarke5008]

Is it possible to play the record the pedal piano without the tapping sound, as that's the main thing I dislike about it, I work very hard to eliminate noises as such when playing the piano.

[@lylerubins9159]

I feel like the pedal harpsichord sounds better and is a more of an improvement to the original instrument than the pedal piano is to the piano.

[@matthewneuls6245]

Wow

[@BillDeef]

Ben spiegato anche per un dilettante come me. And, in English. Well-done.

[@eugeneveziridis]

This is news to me….I never heard of the piano having an entire pedal board.

[@JesusPVZFAN2004]

It looks like to play a second piano with the feet

[@umegghju]

🇮🇹🇮🇹Italia🇮🇹🇮🇹, ancora possiamo dare qualcosa 🇮🇹🇮🇹 Rialziamoci

[@AsrielKujo]

Hehe Giusto!

[@musical.0uija]

That’s so extra

[@SR009s]

And brilliant

[@allysloper1882]

Very interesting, now all you need to get the best out of it is to find someone with six legs.

[@londonphilharmonicorchestra]

You could get three people playing it together. Bit of a squish on the seat sitting together, but it might be cool :-)

[@DityaSangGita]

There are digital organs far cheaper nowadays than this instrument being talked about here.

[@TheJakeman789]

Exactly and you can get an ok piano sound on the organs too.

[@stuartmclaren2402]

Indeed it is quite easy to convert a digital piano to a digital pedal piano by adding a midi pedalboard which are increasingly available for organists to practise at home. This video answered one important question. I was unsure if the pedal notes here had a dynamic range or were like organ or harpsichord, where no matter how hard you press the pedal note, the sound is the same. But to achieve a digital pedal piano we would need a special pedalboard which gives a dynamic range. Still it is achievable.

[@Mabeylater293]

Less talking more playing

[@RobertFisher1969]

There are other videos with playing. Some of us are very grateful to also have a video with more talking.

[@TheJakeman789]

This is too boring and unnatural honestly. Still just a boring piano sound. The organ still and always will win.

[@thebridge1609]

Wow, relax. This is another instrument and does not need to win between the organ

[@SR009s]

Always? So there are no pieces that sound better on piano?

[@Whatismusic123]

?? literally just a piano with extra notes tf are you talking about, also a great amount of things a piano can do the organ can't, that is why it was surpassed in usage among the great composers

[@stuartmclaren2402]

In some cases yes but I wouldn’t say all. I love the organ and have my own organ at home. But recently I listened to Prelude No 10 op 66 by Alkan written and played on a pedal piano by Oliver Latry, who is better known as an international organist. The piece is clearly a piano piece and in my opinion it doesn’t work that well on the organ. Both versions are available on you tube.

[@איןסוף]

okay 5-octave user

[@rrrrrr-kb9sb]

Yikes! The pedal adds nothing to these pieces…..

[@chaselewis7853]

How silly