July 01, 2025

RESONATE - an adaptive, mouth-operated damper pedal system

When pianist Riccardo Baldini lost the use of his legs in a 2019 spinal cord injury, he feared he had also lost the ability to fully express himself through music. For a classical musician trained since childhood, the absence of pedal control felt like a silencing blow. But out of that loss came an idea—and a mission. Teaming up with mechanical engineer Steve Bosch, Riccardo developed Resonate, a revolutionary mouth-operated damper pedal system for pianists with limited lower limb function.

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