This keyboard was shown and demonstrated at a national PTG convention class about 8 years ago. The woman who introduced and played it was a marvelous pianist who could not span an octave. She praised the inventor who made her piano life come alive.
---Tom Gorley
On Jan 1, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> On 1/1/2011 5:59 PM, Tom Servinsky wrote:
>> The other most noticable aspect is the flare of the back end of the
>> keys, as the capstans have to line up with the wippen cushions. I would
>> say the flare is close to a 30 degree outward slant op both the bass and
>> high treble end.
>> In order to maintain structural integrity of the key itself, the keys
>> are made up of 1/8" laminates (horizontally glued), resembling like
>> pinblock stock.
>
> This sounds like an attempt at a good thing. Does this mean that the diagonal bracing of earlier attempts under each key (per Journal article), making it impossible to pull any one key without pulling the entire section, is no longer done? If so, yes!
>
> Ron N
>
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