Music Desks on Grands - v - Uprights

[gordon stelter]

Grand piano owners, as we all know, are "high-class",
hence they have longer necks, silly !!!!!!
     Thump


--- Michael Gamble <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:
> MessageOh Alan! What a suggestion! You surely know
> this puts the pianists arms in the wrong position.
> The question was: why do we put up with high music
> desks on grands while those on uprights are a better
> height for reading the music...;-]
> Regards
> Michael G.(UK)
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Alan 
>   To: 'Pianotech' 
>   Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:22 PM
>   Subject: RE: Music Desks on Grands - v - Uprights
> 
> 
>   To solve this problem, simply position a jack
> under the butt and raise the pianist a few inches.
> 
>   Alan R. Barnard
>   Salem, MO
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael Gamble
>     Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:07 AM
>     To: pianotech@ptg.org
>     Subject: Music Desks on Grands - v - Uprights
> 
> 
>     Hello List
>     There must be an answer to the incredible
> difference in height above the keyboard of the desk
> on a grand to that of an upright. One has to crane
> one's neck to read music on many grand music desks -
> yet that is not so on uprights. OK so the fall gets
> in the way of any desk extended lower on a grand.
> Why should we simply "put up" with this? Anyone
> noticed this? And think of those people with a grand
> which, to cut down on the noise of their playing,
> they close the top lid and place the music desk on
> top of the closed lid... Severe craned neck ensues.
>     Regards
>     Michael G.(UK)
> 
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