List, Does anyone have any experience with the 7/8 keyboard? We have several Oriental students with very small hands who are excellent pianists but have a lot of difficulty in playing certain repertoire. They're always having to decide what notes to leave out just to play the piece and then it doesn't sound right. I was discussing this with the chairman of our piano department today because some new students are coming in and they have very small hands. During the discussion, a few questions came up: 1) If these were used, wouldn't the pianist have a lot of problems when going to competitions, giving recitals elsewhere, etc. and having to play on "normal" keyboards? 2) Are they designed as just a keyframe and keys and one just installs the regular action on that frame? Or do you have to get the entire thing? Is there a web site pertaining to this? I just tried to access the archives because I think it's been discussed in the last year or two but couldn't get on right now. Wasn't there also a Journal article about them? Would it be feasible/practical, especially in an institutional setting to consider getting a couple of these? One for a teaching piano and one for a performance piano? Just some rhetorical questions possibly, but an interesting possibility. Thanks for any help. Avery mailto:atodd@uh.edu I'd rather be over the hill than under it. Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4201
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