<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Wim:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>A friend of mine just mentioned something of which I was not aware. He played a 80 year rebuilt O in a show room, and he liked it, except that the keys were not as long as the new pianos. I</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not have any specific information that I can tell you, but I have had my own personal experience. My wife and I were playing on some pianos at a Steinway dealership, and two of their pianos had short keys. When something was mentioned, the dealer insisted that all the keys were the same length and got out a ruler; naturally he was wrong.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I remember that one of the pianos was a NEW 'art' style $270,000 piano, the other was an older model. My wife mentioned that she had experienced many older Hamburg Steinway pianos that had short keys. The only thing that I can confirm is that I saw a NEW Steinway that had short keys . . . so at least I know for sure that such a thing does exist.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bradley M. Snook</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>