A
pedalboard (also called a
pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a
bass 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 semitone scalar pattern as a
manual keyboard, with longer keys for C, D, E, F, G, A and B, and shorter, higher keys for C, D, F, G and A. Training in pedal technique is part of standard organ pedagogy in church music and art music.