PIANISTS FOR ALTERNATIVELY SIZED KEYBOARDS

The 'Old Royal Pianodrome' now has three different sized keyboards in upright pianos installed in the structure: a conventional 6.5 inch octave, plus 6.0 and 5.5 inch octaves. It is…

See media stories including NPR Classical and Musical America, plus watch many of the concerts via YouTube! International Stretto Piano Festival

This slide show reflects the strong leadership from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart: https://cloud.mh-stuttgart.de/index.php/s/WwvS8aBZZwACcxN

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