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<DIV>Horace:</DIV>
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<DIV>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.
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<DIV>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
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<DIV>I hope we can get a "D" reduced keyboard, but first we have to do some fund
raising on that. </DIV>
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<DIV>dave<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR
***********<BR><BR>On 2/2/01 at 8:45 AM Horace Greeley wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Best.<BR><BR>Horace<BR><BR><BR><BR>At 10:18 AM 2/2/2001 -0600,
you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite>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. <BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>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?<BR> <BR>Help!!!!!<BR> <BR>dave<BR><BR>
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