The industry standard, if there is one, is the 48 inch keyboard (although Steinway current production is 48 3/8²). Divide that up over 52 white keys, and there isn¹t really any variation possible in key spacing, and any significant variation in width just gives the Letterman effect. The DS 7/8 keyboard is 42 inches. We don¹t have one here, but I have heard several very positive reviews of it. Regards, Ken Z. On 1/25/08 12:06 PM, "Paul T Williams" <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > > List, > > Is there a standard in the industry for piano key width on the naturals. > Nearly all the pianos here are at 23mm except for the five Mason and Hamlins > from the 20's we have which measure 22mm giving them a disconcerting space > between the keys. Think of David Letterman <G>. We have no European pianos so > I can't measure them. > > One of our piano professors is doing some kind of research paper and was a big > advocate for one of our practice Steinways to have a 7/8th keyboard installed > for small handed students. (It hardly ever gets played!) > > Thanks > > Paul -- Ken Zahringer, RPT Piano Technician MU School of Music 297 Fine Arts 882-1202 cell 489-7529 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080125/c4b24023/attachment.html
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