---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Horace: Actually, Danny didn't have anything to do with our 7/8 keyboard. We got= it from DS Keyboards just this year. David Steinbuhler is trying to= promote the concept of smaller keyboards for people with small hands, and= hopes recital venues will sometime get alternate keyboards for their= concert instruments. We are already contemplating one for one of our= "D"s. We are the first University to have one of these, and this teacher is doing= a lot of research on how it affects players, how they adjust to it, how= they cope with going back and forth with full sized keyboards, how it= affects physical strain on the hands and arms, etc. It's an interesting= project. She is going to be teaching for a week at our summer campus in= Taos, NM, bringing 3 pianos with reduced keyboard to that campus for the= week. I've suggested that I should go for the week to take care of the= pianos etc., but I don't think they are taking me seriously! Oh well! I hope we can get a "D" reduced keyboard, but first we have to do some fund= raising on that. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/2/01 at 8:45 AM Horace Greeley wrote: Dave, So, having just given Danny a sound, and, I might add, richly deserved= thrashing, about I recommend that he get you another 7/8 machine?= Perferably, a D. Fact is, different attempts have come and gone over the years with this= problem. None of them have been overly successful. Obviously, part of= that is that there has not been the market push behind it that there is= now. At the same time, the wunderkindlein do need to remember that,= unless there name is something like "Kissin", they are not going to be in= a position to do much except play whatever they find on stage - and, they= need to just learn to live with that truth. And, no, none of us have any business moving pianos. What we can do is one= thing. What we should do (personally and/or professionally) is something= else again. Best. Horace At 10:18 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote: We have a reduced size keyboard piano that several students are working on.= It is a Steinway "B" in a teacher's studio. Naturally, these students= want to do their recitals on it so we're looking at moving it from the= studio to the recital hall 2 or 3 times a semester. I have scrupulously avoided anything that even looks like piano moving in= the past, calling professionals when we have had a need. Fortunately we= have lots of professional movers here in Dallas, and we haven't moved= pianos all that much. This 7/8 keyboard changes all that. Do any of you use the "piano horse" that I've seen at conventions? Is it a= practical thing to consider? Can one person really move a piano with one?= Can an out-of-shape 61 year old consider doing this? Help!!!!! dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/c1/80/c0/b5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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