Stephen, Pass on his name and address or have him contact me. With a little ingenuity it shouldn't be that difficult (or expensive) to make a one-off piano, with plate. It would be an interesting project. -- ddf -------------------------------- Stephen Birkett wrote: > Owen: > > Been waiting for an opportunity to slip in this...here is the piano for > you...and all the other lefties! > > A British pianist has commissioned a mirror-image piano from Poletti and > Tuinman in Utrecht (actually will be an 1815 Graf copy, but that is > irrelevant). The pianist is a leftie who believes his brain is reversed > in some way, and will play all the standard repertoire on the instrument, > reversing the left and right hand parts. Thus the RH is the bass, LH the > treble and everything will work in reverse. Now that is believed to be > the first. > > The whole thing sounds like a publicity stunt, but I've met this pianist > and it is absolutely genuine. He chose the early piano because obviously > he couldn't get a modern manufacturer to make a single mirro-image > instrument for him. This appeared in the Times and various other European > newspapers at the time he was looking for funding to support the > commission. > > Everything on the piano will be reversed, except for the direction the > tuning pins are turned to increase pitch (don't know why that was > decided). Of course the true leftie tuners of this thread could also want > that parameter mirrored. For complete political correctness now we will > have to say "down in the treble". > > Last I heard preliminary work had just begun. > > Stephen > > Stephen Birkett Fortepianos > Authentic Reproductions of 18th and 19th Century Pianos > 464 Winchester Drive > Waterloo, Ontario > Canada N2T 1K5 > tel: 519-885-2228 > email: birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca
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