Steinway double-keyboard piano

[Mark Ultsch]

Hi All,

Sorry for posting a personal note to pianotech by mistake.  

An article describing the workings of the double manual appeared in the Journal of March 2006.  I know the article may be a bit difficult to "wade" through.  The picture might be more helpful than the verbage.  You can ask questions and I can try to explain it better, although I haven't seen it for 18 months and my memory might fail me.  The Downweight on the upper manual was (prior to reconditioning) quite high.  I wonder what it is now, too.  The upper manual keyframe is basically screwed onto the lower keyframe.  The whole unit pulls out of the keybed just like normal.

At the time of the article, the UW--Madison was looking to have the action reconditioned.  Subsequently, Steinway accepted that laborious task.

Kit Taylor will be performing with the instrument on Wednesday September 5, 2007 at Ravinia, just North of Chicago.  I believe there are other concerts scheduled as well.

Mark Ultsch
Madison

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cy Shuster 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:34 AM
  Subject: Re: Steinway double-keyboard piano


  Only one quick view of the action... it looks like the upper keybed flips up to allow action removal, and is attached under the stretcher somehow (I'll bet there's no fallboard!).  The upper manual must push down on the keys right behind the keytops, right?  It sure must have a high downweight at that point, plus the mechanism to play an octave higher.

  With just one set of hammers, you'd have to work around the problem of playing the same note at the same time.

  --Cy--
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Farrell 
    To: pianotech at ptg.org 
    Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 6:56 AM
    Subject: Steinway double-keyboard piano


    Neat. Great video. Enjoy!

    Christopher Taylor explores the potential of Steinway's one and only double-keyboard piano, newly refurbished at the Steinway factory.

    http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp?fr_story=51447a22df4808817b10c4ec7f31af913673f701

    Terry Farrell
    Farrell Piano

    www.farrellpiano.com
    terry at farrellpiano.com
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