key levelling -- crown?

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@optonline.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: November 16, 2001 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: key levelling -- crown?


> Has anyone given thought to the possibility that the crown was to
> accommodate the ergonomic fact that the tendency of the hand to lower
> when being extended from the body center?
>
> Newton
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I shouldn't think 1/32" would be enough to notice. Besides, ergonomically
you'd want the outside ends to curve up, not down.

Del