[rodgersorgan] AGO pedalboards

It's been a while since I studied the spec, but the AGO must allow enough 
variation (e.g., one inch +/- one-half inch) to explain why many pedalboards 
I've encountered differ from each other yet claim to conform to the AGO spec.  
Flat, straight, nonradiating pedals are allowed, but some seem wider than 
others.  Some concave radiating boards seem to have a lot more cave than 
others; some seem to have fatter keys; some keys seem to sink further before 
the sound is heard, some speak with very little drop but keep going down until 
you think they're broken.  And there's the infamous builder of those strange 
pedalboards with short black keys who asserted that such pedalboards were 
easier to play and the console was nevertheless AGO.
Speaking of flat "European style" pedalboards, do any of you feel they're 
harder or easier to play?  How about flat/horizontal black keys vs. sloped?  If 
God had intended us to play 61-note manuals and 32-note pedalboards, we would 
have been born with them?  Are reverse key colors (dark naturals and white 
sharps) easier to play?  Only with the lights out?

Noel Heinze, Asheville, NC
St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community
Rodgers 835B and PR300S


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