WHY DOES THE AVERAGE ORGAN HAVE 30 OR 32 PEDAL NOTES ?
The pedal board notes are like another keyboard/manual but this time they are pl modern the feet and SOUND the very LOW notes of the organ you can hear. These pedal note-pipes are NOT usually found in an organ chamber but were often placed behind the organ chambers, where they can speak freely. Many organs only have 30 pedal notes as found on the Father Willis pipe organ at TRURO cathedral, but organs are built with 32 pedal notes, it is matter of the organ builders or the organist choice, or sometimes even a lack of space. There is not a great deal of organ music written where the extra two notes are required but most modern organs are now built with 32 pedal notes.
