Mark, At 22:44 4/1/2005, you wrote: >Do any of you know of any pianos from the past (or existing) which >have two manuals? > >The University of Wisconsin--Madison School of Music has the only two- >manual Steinway D (Hamburg). It will be used by Christopher Taylor >for the Goldberg Variations in Madison on April 23, 2005. There's a two manual piano with a different configuration under Pierre's care in Brussels. Lower manual is normal, upper is reversed. (bass right/treble left) Brain not functional enough yet to remember the maker. Belgian, if I recall. (Pierre, m'aidez, svp) Yet another variation on this theme at the same location is a two manual (Érard?) which has the upper manual a half step different. I kind of looks like a Moňr keyboard, but the same keystick which plays C in the lower manual is the B in the upper, so shifting to playing on the upper manual has the effect of transposing up 1/2 step... Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.
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