Play the pedal with a tilt of your head.

Congratulations on the open-source release. As a piano teacher I’m glad to be part of this wonderful project — I believe music should be for everyone, and I hope bFaaaP encourages more people who want to play. My piano studio offers lessons with bFaaaP, including home visits — if attending in a wheelchair has been hard and you’d given up on lessons, please feel free to ask. And you can perform with bFaaaP at our recitals: I’ll support each person’s wish to play on stage.

Pedalling is very delicate: pressing the pedal too far can muddy a phrase and lose the beauty of the harmony. bFaaaP is a wonderful device that renders that fine pedal control not with the toes but through how you tilt your head and how fast — letting the player express their music more richly and precisely.

The piano is an instrument that anyone in the world can enjoy. As a piano tuner myself, I am deeply impressed that bFaaaP makes such a wide range of playing possible without placing any burden whatsoever on the piano’s action. And with this open-source release, I dearly hope that many more people will come to know bFaaaP, and that it can reach even a few of those who feel some inconvenience.

Heartfelt congratulations on bFaaaP going open source!

This system, which lets you control the piano pedal with nothing but the movement of your head while you play, is remarkably flexible to adjust — anyone, from children to the elderly, can master it with ease. I believe it is a system that widens what a performer is able to do.

As an important project for realizing the free wish that “music is for everyone,” I sincerely hope this comes to the attention of as many people as possible.

Congratulations on the open-source release.

The pedal is a vital function that greatly shapes the expression of piano playing — yet there are people for whom operating it is difficult for physical reasons.

bFaaaP removes that barrier, and I feel it is a wonderful endeavour that gives form to the player’s wish to “play” and to “express more.”

Because bFaaaP responds even to delicate pedal changes, I believe it will be a great force in helping many people achieve a performance that is truly their own.

Toward a society where everyone can enjoy music and express themselves in their own way, I hope this project reaches even more people.

Enjoying music as an amateur choir singer, I came to know of “bFaaaP” through a fortunate connection. I was ashamed that until then I had not noticed the people who need assistance to operate the pedal — and at the same time, I was strongly struck by the existence of this wonderful technology.

I still vividly remember the thrill of pressing the pedal for the first time as a child at my piano lesson. Precisely because I once experienced being captivated by the depth of the way the pedal lets sounds resonate richly together, I feel strongly that the wish to express oneself must never be blocked for physical reasons. The right to enjoy music should belong equally to everyone.

I was deeply moved by this open-source initiative. An environment where anyone who needs this technology can access it at any time is, I think, truly ideal. I hope that this release will make “bFaaaP” widely known and — just as a person with weak eyesight wears glasses — that it becomes an option people who need it can use as a matter of course. Through that, I sincerely hope the world of music will become a richer and gentler place.

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