---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Horace: You send the original keyboard with the action stack to DS Keyboards, and he makes a new keyboard and returns both to you. You can simply substitute one keyboard for the other whenever you want. The alignment and fit are quite amazing when you consider he has the keyboard but not the piano. Check out his web page at http://www.dskeyboards.com/ Each keyboard is made specifically for 1 piano. There are simply too many variations to make a keyboard that will fit other pianos. One added plus, he analyzes the keyboards for geometry problems, so you can send him an action that plays like a truck (as I did) and he'll return you a smaller keyboard with corrected geometry. The action I sent him had MANY leads in the keys, and played very heavy. The one I got back was really quite nice. Because of the geometry problems is was definitely the "second" piano in this teacher's studio and seldom used. Now it is heavily used. I'm quite impressed with the work he does. He holds a patent on the way he compensates for the extreme key flair that becomes necessary to align the narrow keys with the full stack. It works very well. Do check out the web page. It is quite informative. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/2/01 at 9:44 AM Horace Greeley wrote: Dave, This is most interesting, I would like to send along some appropriate information to a few teachers I know out here. Can you let me/us know more? Since this is aftermarket, in a sense, does the keyset care what kind of piano it goes into (well, ok, generally, anyway)? Also, stuff like, did you do the fitting on the B?etc. Thanks! Horace At 11:32 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote: Horace: Actually, Danny didn't have anything to do with our 7/8 keyboard. We got it from DS Keyboards just this year. David Steinbuhler is trying to promote the concept of smaller keyboards for people with small hands, and hopes recital venues will sometime get alternate keyboards for their concert instruments. We are already contemplating one for one of our "D"s. We are the first University to have one of these, and this teacher is doing a lot of research on how it affects players, how they adjust to it, how they cope with going back and forth with full sized keyboards, how it affects physical strain on the hands and arms, etc. It's an interesting project. She is going to be teaching for a week at our summer campus in Taos, NM, bringing 3 pianos with reduced keyboard to that campus for the week. I've suggested that I should go for the week to take care of the pianos etc., but I don't think they are taking me seriously! Oh well! I hope we can get a "D" reduced keyboard, but first we have to do some fund raising on that. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/2/01 at 8:45 AM Horace Greeley wrote: Dave, So, having just given Danny a sound, and, I might add, richly deserved thrashing, about I recommend that he get you another 7/8 machine? Perferably, a D. Fact is, different attempts have come and gone over the years with this problem. None of them have been overly successful. Obviously, part of that is that there has not been the market push behind it that there is now. At the same time, the wunderkindlein do need to remember that, unless there name is something like "Kissin", they are not going to be in a position to do much except play whatever they find on stage - and, they need to just learn to live with that truth. And, no, none of us have any business moving pianos. What we can do is one thing. What we should do (personally and/or professionally) is something else again. Best. Horace At 10:18 AM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote: We have a reduced size keyboard piano that several students are working on. It is a Steinway "B" in a teacher's studio. Naturally, these students want to do their recitals on it so we're looking at moving it from the studio to the recital hall 2 or 3 times a semester. I have scrupulously avoided anything that even looks like piano moving in the past, calling professionals when we have had a need. Fortunately we have lots of professional movers here in Dallas, and we haven't moved pianos all that much. This 7/8 keyboard changes all that. Do any of you use the "piano horse" that I've seen at conventions? Is it a practical thing to consider? Can one person really move a piano with one? Can an out-of-shape 61 year old consider doing this? Help!!!!! dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 David M. 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