<html> 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: <blockquote type=cite cite>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: <dl> <dd>Dave, <dd>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. <dd>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. <dd>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. <dd>Best. <dd>Horace <dd>At 10:18 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote:<blockquote type=cite cite> <dd>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.  <dd>  <dd>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. <dd>  <dd>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? <dd>  <dd>Help!!!!! <dd>  <dd>dave <hr> <dd>David M. Porritt <dd><a href="mailto:dporritt@swbell.net">dporritt@swbell.net</a> <dd>Meadows School of the Arts <dd>Southern Methodist University <dd>Dallas, TX 75275<hr> </blockquote> </dl> <hr> David M. Porritt <a href="mailto:dporritt@swbell.net">dporritt@swbell.net</a> Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 <hr> </blockquote></html>