PIANISTS FOR ALTERNATIVELY SIZED KEYBOARDS
If everyone plays the same size, most are playing the wrong size!
Six pianists in the US and Japan perform works by Rachmaninoff and his contemporaries on stretto pianos - all have narrower keys. They would struggle to play these works on…
Please support this crowd-funding project to help HMDK Stuttgart become the first university in Europe to have a stretto keyboard (in this case, a 6.0 inch octave) in a concert…
Steingraeber & Sohne will take their A-170 grand piano with 6.0 inch (15.2 cm) keyboard to the International EPTA conference, to be held in Lucerne, Switzerland in February-March 2024. Professor…
There is a 3D printer in the US who will take orders for 3D models of the DS sizes - 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, plus the conventional 6.5 and the oversize…
PASK coordinator, Rhonda Boyle, visited piano faculty staff at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart and the Nuremberg University of Music in August 2024. Together they were…
Steingraeber & Sohne, who has manufactured highly rated pianos in Bayreuth, Germany since 1852, now offer both 6.0 and 5.5 inch octave sizes in their acoustic pianos. https://www.steingraeber.de/en/innovationen/narrow-keyboards/
This video from Gjermund Sivertsen is informative and entertaining! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfdNxbHl_40&list=PLHBn-VaaOCGcfrUsklI1GztxTaaGj5sPh&index=13
From the Piano Pod - listen to this fascinating episode about the International Stretto Piano Festival and Hannah Reimann's journey with Stretto pianos (i.e. alternatively sized keyboards). Pianist Julia Furnan…
The Nuremburg University of Music now has a 6.0 inch octave keyboard in a Steinway M grand piano. The piano was restored and keyboard arranged by Steingraeber.
A podcast: 'The Narrow Key Piano Crusade' by music educator Tim Topham has been released. It features Canadian pianist, teacher and writer Linda Gould, and Melbourne researcher and PASK coordinator…