key levelling -- crown?

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@home.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: November 16, 2001 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: key levelling -- crown?


>
> Not really. But reading your idea did give me a momentary mental
picture --
> a keyboard in a slight arc surrounding the player, so that the player's
> hands could approach the keys at the extremes of the scale without
> kinking the wrists.
>
> It would be so much more comfortable to play that I'm sure many people
have
> considered building something that way. The trouble is that it would
> be a bear to design and build.
>
> Educated list members? Has anyone built a keyboard where the keys
> fan out around the player like that?
>
> Susan
> ----------------------------------

Been done and is being done. I think one of Yamaha's sculpted rim grands is
being done this way.

Del