---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dave, This is most interesting, I would like to send along some appropriate information to a few teachers I know out here. Can you let me/us know more? Since this is aftermarket, in a sense, does the keyset care what kind of piano it goes into (well, ok, generally, anyway)? Also, stuff like, did you do the fitting on the B?etc. Thanks! Horace At 11:32 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote: >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 >><mailto:dporritt@swbell.net>dporritt@swbell.net >>Meadows School of the Arts >>Southern Methodist University >>Dallas, TX 75275 >>---------- > > >---------- >David M. Porritt ><mailto:dporritt@swbell.net>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/8b/4d/46/29/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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