<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>Someone in France, a = few years ago built a piano with a curved keyboard, and pedal assembly. Quite = interesting. Didn't seem to strike</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>a chord with = anyone at the time, as far as I know!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>Bob</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=2>Moffatt & Sons = Piano<BR>Calgary, Alberta<BR>Canada<BR>(403) 243-0385</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <HR> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=drpt@sk.sympatico.ca = href="mailto:drpt@sk.sympatico.ca">Don</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 16, 2001 = 10:25 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: key levelling -- crown?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Susan,<BR><BR>Curved keyboard has already been done. = One of my books somewhere....grrrr. <BR><BR><BR>At 08:34 PM 11/16/01 -0800, = you wrote:<BR>>At 10:17 PM 11/16/2001 -0600, you = wrote:<BR>><BR>>> >Has anyone given thought to the possibility that the crown was to<BR>>> >accommodate the ergonomic fact that the tendency of = the hand to lower<BR>>> >when being extended from the body center?<BR>>> ><BR>>> = >           &nb= sp;   Newton<BR>><BR>>Not really. But reading your idea did give me a momentary mental picture --<BR>>a keyboard in a slight arc = surrounding the player, so that the player's<BR>>hands could approach the keys at = the extremes of the scale without<BR>>kinking the = wrists.<BR>><BR>>It would be so much more comfortable to play that I'm sure many people have<BR>>considered building something that way. The trouble is = that it would<BR>>be a bear to design and build.<BR>><BR>>Educated = list members? Has anyone built a keyboard where the keys<BR>>fan out = around the player like that?<BR>><BR>>Susan = <BR>><BR>><BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.<BR><BR><A = href="mailto:drpt@sk.sympatico.ca">mailto:drpt@sk.sympatico.ca</A><BR><= A = href="http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/">http://us.geocities.com/drpt19= 48/</A><BR><BR>3004 Grant Rd.<BR>REGINA, SK<BR>S4S 5G7<BR>306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>