Bone keytops

[ATodd@UH.EDU]

Horace,
   I'm cleaning out some old saved e-mail messages and I ran across this from
you:

RE: >   We are getting a new keyboard with bone keytops on our rebuilt 'D'. It's
>supposed to have some of the same absorptive characteristics as ivory. I'll
>be very interested to hear what the pianists think of it.
>
>Avery

Avery,

Please share what the pianists think.  I have found bone to work very well
for some and not well for others.  It seems, at least in the cases I've
seen, to have to do with amount of usage and overall ambient humidity...

Any thoughts are welcome.

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   So far, so good. Every pianist that has played on it loves it. There
haven't been too many recitals on it so far this semester, but as time passes
we'll see what the longterm reaction to them is.

Avery Todd, RPT
University of Houston
atodd@uh.edu