how a girl with an Injured Spinal Cord could use teh right pedal?

[Dave Bunch]

Larry Fisher has developed just what you are talking about using PianoDisc
components. Go to the following web page and you can contact him from there.

http://home.pacifier.com/~larryf/wheelchr.html

His design is activated by head movement but If that would not work in her
case, I don't see why the air tube switch could not be used.

Dave Bunch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michiel van Loon" <mvanloon@pianoman.nl>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: how a girl with an Injured Spinal Cord could use teh right pedal?


> Dear colleagues,
> After being away from this list for more than 2 years, I subscribed again
a
> few minutes ago  to ask for your advise.
> The question has been posed to me is as follows. It is about a 7 year old
> girl with an injured spinal cord. She is learning to play the piano. She
has
> the normal use of het arms and hands, but now that she comes to the point
> where she has to use the damper pedal, she needs somthing to depress the
> right pedal.
> Does anyone of you know if there already exsist something to solve this
> problem?
> I have been thinking of using Disklavier parts controlled by a tube on
which
> she can blow to press a microswitch.
> Any idea is welcome.
> Regards,
>
> Michiel van Loon
> O.D. Laan 6
> 7943 CA Meppel
> The Netherlands
> telephone 0031 522 255160
> cellphone 0031 6 55150644
> fax           0031 84 8674344
> e-mail mvanloon@pianoman.nl
> www.pianoman.nl
>
>