Unveiled in the year 2000, this instrument represents the first double concert grand piano with pedalboard to appear in the modern era.

It consists of two concert grand pianos superimposed. BORGATO Patent.

The lower instrument is governed by a specially designed pedalboard of thirty-seven pedals, conceived and crafted expressly for this singular double piano.

It is composed of thousands of components, each meticulously engineered and fashioned for this instrument.

LENGTH:  398 cm (Length: 13,06 ft)
WIDTH:  167 cm (Width: 5,48 ft)
WEIGHT: 1257 kg (Weight: 2770 lb)
PEDALBOARD: 37 pedals, spanning three octaves (A 27.5 Hz – A 220 Hz). An auxiliary resonance pedal simultaneously actuates the dampers of both pianos.
FINISH: Ebony high polish, gilded cast-iron frame, hand-painted details.

HISTORICAL NOTES

* – In 1785, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart possessed an independent pedal fortepiano, constructed expressly for him by Anton Walter. In the autograph manuscript of the Concerto in D minor, K. 466, composed in that very year, one perceives the breadth of the extended bass register. Moreover, in his father’s correspondence, reference is made to Wolfgang’s public use of this pedal instrument.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, other composers, too, composed works for the pedal piano, among them:

Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Jean Guillou…