>Ted Wrote: >The man you saw in Orlando with the narrow keys is David Steinbuhler, from >Titusville, Pennsylvania. The company is D/S Keyboards, His son, Chase is >in charge of production. The D stands for Chris Donison, who is the music >director of the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. David Stanwood >gave them significant help in the design. The help I gave is insignificant compared to the technical difficulties Steinbuhler has overcome to make narrow keyboards for any piano. All I did was teach him how to assess pre existing touchweight metrology parameters, particularly in regards to identifying and correcting key ratios. This is a particular problem with Steinway pianos whose key ratios vary widely from piano to piano. They had made a narrow keyboard for a Steinway B with a high key weight ratio. As a result, it felt unwell. David had faithfully copied the pre existing key weight ratio. I taught him how to redesign new key ratios in order to achieve a desired overall action weight ratio. He has a CNC router that works from a program. All he has to do is type in the new Key Weight Ratio as well as other basic action dimensions. Quite incredible stuff they are doing!!! David Stanwood
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