<div>Frank,</div> <div> </div> <div>Think of the touchweight difference between a key placed on the end of the keystick compared to a key on the same keystick closer to the balance rail. It would be impossible to regulate this piano for an equal touchweight across the keyboard. </div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Sivak</div> <div>Chicago<BR><BR><B><I>Frank Emerson <pianoguru@earthlink.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:SmartTagType name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="PostalCode"
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to a single key stick (level.) It clearly would be easier for a beginner to learn to play on such a keyboard, but what teach is going to start a beginner on such a keyboard, after spending a lifetime learning how to perform on a keyboard that had become the standard over hundreds of years? As with the Dvorak typewriter keyboard, they both had real advantages, but there was no hope of them being adopted when thousands, if not hundred! s of thousands of users had invested countless hours learning to perform their respective tasks on the standard arrangement of keys.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Merry Christmas to all!</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Frank Emerson</DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>