key length

[Bradley M. Snook]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
>Wim:
>A friend of mine just mentioned something of which I was not aware. He played a 80 year rebuilt O in a show room, and he liked it, except that the keys were not as long as the new pianos. I
>

I do not have any specific information that I can tell you, but I have had my own personal experience. My wife and I were playing on some pianos at a Steinway dealership, and two of their pianos had short keys. When something was mentioned, the dealer insisted that all the keys were the same length and got out a ruler; naturally he was wrong.

I remember that one of the pianos was a NEW 'art' style $270,000 piano, the other was an older model. My wife mentioned that she had experienced many older Hamburg Steinway pianos that had short keys. The only thing that I can confirm is that I saw a NEW Steinway that had short keys . . . so at least I know for sure that such a thing does exist.


Bradley M. Snook

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/00/0b/0c/b7/attachment.htm

---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--