Re: Question for Steinway Techs

Stewart Taylor wrote:
> I have a new Hamburg Steinway 'B' which gives me great joy. The other day
> my brother, who is a painter, noticed with his artist's eye that the keys
> go in a gentle arc with the centre of the keyboard very slightly higher
> than the ends; I hadn't noticed this previously but the arc is so perfect
> that it's obviously intentional.

If you reflect on it, any deviation from dead straight should be in the
concave direction, from an ergonomic point of view, or slmost
imperceptively convex, from a purely aesthetic one.  However, if you sight
down the keyboards of a sampling of Steinways, I'm betting you'll find that
straight is the norm.  

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John Miller
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