Piano horse

[David M. Porritt]

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Horace:

Actually, Danny didn't have anything to do with our 7/8 keyboard.  We got=
 it from DS Keyboards just this year.  David Steinbuhler is trying to=
 promote the concept of smaller keyboards for people with small hands, and=
 hopes recital venues will sometime get alternate keyboards for their=
 concert instruments.  We are already contemplating one for one of our=
 "D"s.  

We are the first University to have one of these, and this teacher is doing=
 a lot of research on how it affects players, how they adjust to it, how=
 they cope with going back and forth with full sized keyboards, how it=
 affects physical strain on the hands and arms, etc.  It's an interesting=
 project.  She is going to be teaching for a week at our summer campus in=
 Taos, NM, bringing 3 pianos with reduced keyboard to that campus for the=
 week.  I've suggested that I should go for the week to take care of the=
 pianos etc., but I don't think they are taking me seriously!  Oh well!  

I hope we can get a "D" reduced keyboard, but first we have to do some fund=
 raising on that.  

dave
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On 2/2/01 at 8:45 AM Horace Greeley wrote:

Dave,

So, having just given Danny a sound, and, I might add, richly deserved=
 thrashing, about I recommend that he get you another 7/8 machine?=
  Perferably, a D.

Fact is, different attempts have come and gone over the years with this=
 problem.  None of them have been overly successful.  Obviously, part of=
 that is that there has not been the market push behind it that there is=
 now.  At the same time, the wunderkindlein do need to remember that,=
 unless there name is something like "Kissin", they are not going to be in=
 a position to do much except play whatever they find on stage - and, they=
 need to just learn to live with that truth.

And, no, none of us have any business moving pianos.  What we can do is one=
 thing.  What we should do (personally and/or professionally) is something=
 else again.

Best.

Horace



At 10:18 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote:

We have a reduced size keyboard piano that several students are working on.=
  It is a Steinway "B" in a teacher's studio.  Naturally, these students=
 want to do their recitals on it so we're looking at moving it from the=
 studio to the recital hall 2 or 3 times a semester.  
 
I have scrupulously avoided anything that even looks like piano moving in=
 the past, calling professionals when we have had a need.  Fortunately we=
 have lots of professional movers here in Dallas, and we haven't moved=
 pianos all that much.  This 7/8 keyboard changes all that.
 
Do any of you use the "piano horse" that I've seen at conventions?  Is it a=
 practical thing to consider?  Can one person really move a piano with one?=
  Can an out-of-shape 61 year old consider doing this?
 
Help!!!!!
 
dave



David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275


David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275


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