Left-Handed piano (no joke)

[Gordon Rumson]

>Rob wrote:
>> Here's one to try on your clients today...
>> "A major piano manufacturer has announced the production of "left-handed
>> pianos". The bass will be on the right side, and the treble on the
>> left".  ;-)


Greetings,

This has been done before.  I located a concert announcement from England
in the late 1800s of a concert with a two manual piano where the keyboards
were in opposite directions of pitch.

Further, the Baldwin Pianovelle (an electronic piano currently available)
has a tuning function called INVERSE which does this to the keyboard.

"There is nothing (or very little) new under the sun."

All best wishes,

Gordon Rumson


Canadian Pianist and Composer

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