What Does the Middle Pedal Do? (MIRACLE IN A BOX Sostenuto Demo)

Many people play a piano without ever knowing what the middle pedal does or how it can be used. Frederick Hodges gives the best demonstration yet of the sostenuto and how it can add to your interpretation of any music. (This is available as a bonus feature on the DVD of MIRACLE IN A BOX)

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• Miracle
• Box
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• Piano
• sostenuto
• Peddle
• Fredrick
• Hodges

[nonagona3]

Finally found the song! It's Swanee by George Gershwin

[nonagona3]

Yes what is that song? I can't seem to find it anywhere else :(

[RastaGirl331]

Great vid thanks! with uprights you can see what the middle pedal does by just looking into the top, but I couldn't figure it out with a grand! so Thank you! Also, love the haircut and the shoes, very classy ;)

[thedirtymeatball]

yellow funny haircut and bowling shoes!!! lmao

[ROMANTICLOVE09]

I always wondered how and why that pedal is used. Thanks for the educational lesson! Great playin, too!! Piano sounds flawless!!

[mikeb1444]

His demo of the sostenuto pedal, before he played the the george gershwin tune is really a good demo now that I watched this video again.

[Keeper1st]

@mikeb1444 Hmm, I can't remember if the soft pedal works properly or is a typical upright action of just moving closer to the strings. I'd think if they managed to make a sostenuto system work on their upright, they should have been able to make the left pedal work properly too.

[mikeb1444]

@Keeper1st

Hmmm. Now if the una corda works, I just might be getting a piano for the holidays :)

Thanks for the reply!

[Keeper1st]

@mikeb1444 Ah, well then at least you know that the Yamahas have one. I think I heard that new Steinway uprights do now also, but I've never seen one. I can vouch for the Yamahas though as I have played around with the sostenuto on a couple of them. Tom's doing OK I guess. Saw him a month ago. He turned 40 a little over a week ago. Years ago he had said something about the world coming to end if that ever happened, but somehow we're still here...

[mikeb1444]

@Keeper1st

I've been looking for a Piano with a sostenuto since my 1950's Story and Clark console doesn't have one. I swore to myself I'd never own a digital one though.... By the way. How's Tom doing?

[Keeper1st]

@mikeb1444 Their acoustic uprights. I would hope that the digital ones, if they had a middle pedal, would also emulate a proper sostenuto. I don't recall seeing a digital piano with three pedals, but it's been a while since I've seen a digital piano.

[mikeb1444]

@Keeper1st

Is that for the acoustic ones, or the digital ones that look like uprights.