The pedal piano is a very rare hybrid instrument - a piano that includes a pedal-board, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, like on an organ. The instrument never became popular, and I am aware of only one concerto for it, composed by Charles Gounod in the 1880's. It is played by Roberto Prosseda with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under Howard Shelley on Hyperion.
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