Pedals ?

[Edward Carwithen]

  I got ahold of the same book.  Verrry interrresting!!



At 02:39 PM 2/20/98 EST, you wrote:
>List;
> I am reading the book written by Arthur Loesser entitled; "Men, Women and
>Pianos".  In the book Arthur makes mention of a piano Erard built for "Consul
>Bonaparte";   the passage reads:
>" .............it also had the row of condimentary pedals customary in Vienna
>instruments, five of them-an unacorda soft pedal, an ordinary sustaining
>pedal, a "basson", a "celeste" pianissimo made by a cloth damper, and a
>"Janizary music" (that is to say, drums and triangle).
>
>  Question:  What specifically is a Janizary ? How does/did it work ?
>
>Comment: Interesting book, well written and shows that they debated some of
>the same subjects, begining with the time that pianos came into vouge, early
>to mid 1700's (France), that we are discussing still today.
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>
Ed Carwithen
Oregon