<HTML>In a message dated 8/23/02 4:36:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davidlovepianos@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> I have a customer with an Ibach Transposing Piano.  I haven't seen it yet.  What is it and basically, how does it work. </BLOCKQUOTE> I think I know this piano.  Is it an ebony 6 foot 7 grand that was purchased from Peninsula Piano Brokers in Palo Alto, CA?  If so, there is a lever that is just below the front left side of the keyboard.  You push down on the lever--it has a spring action that pushes it back up--and slide it left or right however many notches you choose, depending on how far you want to transpose.  The entire action slides with it, placing it under the appropriate strings.  I think the total range of transposition is an octave.   Paul Bailey once put a historical temperament of some sort on this piano or one like it.  Kind of an interesting experiment.  Don't know quite what it proved, but it made for a bit of conversation. Dave Stahl</HTML>