Fw: Fw: Steinway double-keyboard piano

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From: "Jesse Moffatt" <moffattj at cantos.ca>
To: <moffatt5 at telus.net>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:32 PM
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The article is interesting however one has to be careful with the wording
of  " Steinway's one and only double-keyboard piano",. It is a little
misleading......It is a Steinway piano but the double keyboard action and
design is from Emmanuel Moor. There are a number of these double keyboard
instruments floating around although mostly in Bösendorfer. Chickering and
Bechstein pianos.


Jesse Moffatt
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Ultsch
To: Pianotech List
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: Steinway double-keyboard piano

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