<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Steinway replacement keyset-Ken Sloane response</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> On 3/10/05 7:46 AM, "Porritt, David" <dpo= rritt@mail.smu.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>I am curious about the deci= sion to go with the 48.375” new keyboards rather than stick with the 4= 8”.  Here the 48” ones are preferred by all but the players= with extra large hands.  One of our teachers here opted to rebuild her= current “B” rather than get a new one and one of the reasons wa= s to keep the 48” keyboard.  (Of course, I think her rebuilt one = is better than the new ones we did buy!)   </BLOCKQUOTE> I’ll ditto that question. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it m= eans the span of a M10 is larger by a good 1/16”, which is very signif= icant when your hand span can just barely make a M10. And very disconcerting= when you are used to what the smaller span feels like and have adapted, the= n face the larger size and say, well, something unprintable. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico </BODY> </HTML>