Reverse Piano

[Alan W Deverell]

Del, and others - how many left handed Piano Tuners are there
available to tune them:-))

I see the need to re-train - not just the pianists but composers and
music publishers etc.

AlanD (who does suffer from some mild dyslexia but LH Piano is not my
answer to the problem, anyway its all relative of course LH/RH,
Upside/Downside, Inside/Outside, White Skin/Black Skin, Rich/Poor)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org
>[mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
>Of Delwin D Fandrich
>Sent: Thursday, September 10, 1998 2:34 AM
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Reverse Piano
>
>
>I think it is a very interesting idea with a VERY limited market.
>
>Technically, it should produce no insurmountable problems.
>About the only real difficulty I can see right off hand would be
aligning the
>tuning pins.  My approach would be to use conventional tuning pins
and orient
>them as they would be in a conventional piano.  This might make
placement
>tricky at some of the plate breaks -- I haven't flipped a drawing to
see.  Treated like >any conventional one-off prototype piano I really
don't
>understand all the fuss about building one.  Or ten.
>
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>
>Phil Bondi wrote:
>
>> Alan W Deverell wrote:
>>
>> > The more I hear about this the MORE skeptical I become -
>I suspect it
>> > is just a SPOOF - the version I heard was that it was
>designed for
>> > left handed Pianists - not a very big market me thinks:-)))
>> >
>> > AlanD (seeking membership of the Skeptics Society)
>>
>> ..it may not be a big market Alan, but a friend in England
>thought I
>> might be interested..I am..and I'm making the article
>available to those
>> techs who would want to know a little about it..I would like to SEE
>> one..or I would like to see Mr. Fandrich's reaction to it,
>or any other
>> piano designer....it's a novelty, for sure..and honestly,
>the article
>> isn't much..it's the pianist's view of it..
>>
>> Phil