Am I the only pianist who often rests the left foot slightly under the bench while playing? ie: within the 'footprint' of the bench legs. As un-steal-able as the Newton Cube appears to be, this would preclude such posture. Regards, Stan Kroeker, RPT On 8-Oct-09, at 11:18 AM, Mccoy, Alan wrote: > I haven’t made any, but if I were I would change the dimensions. > There are lots of students around here who like higher benches and I > have ordered several Jansen benches with the 2” longer legs. So I’d > probably go with some at 19-20-21 and some at 18-19-20 as well as > the original. > > Alan > > > -- Alan McCoy, RPT > Eastern Washington University > amccoy at ewu.edu > 509-359-4627 (message Pacific time) > 509-999-9512 (cell Pacific time) > > > From: Mark Cramer <Cramer at brandonu.ca> > Reply-To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:36:16 -0700 > To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> > Subject: [CAUT] Newton Hunt's piano bench > > Has anyone built or have one of Newton Hunt’s piano benches in use? > > His clever idea was a wooden cube with dimensions of 17” x 18” x > 19” allowing three possible bench heights. > > Before I have any made, I’m just curious how the idea stands up in > actual use. > > Thanks all, > Mark Cramer, RPT > Brandon University > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091008/76a98d34/attachment-0001.htm>
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