Thanks Charles improvisation is a fun discipline and keeps me learning. As for the voicing of the piano I agree totally different on the web.

@@RobertsPianosHouston I agree about improvisation. I was impressed by Keith Jarrett many years ago, gave me courage to approach the piano basically untrained. I’ve got several in vids I’ve uploaded included one I called “Overture for the Oppressed”. Lately I’m running around the circle of fifths like crazy, I find it helps me get a lot more understanding and thereby assertiveness and authority about what I’m doing. You and your father are the most careful about details like keys height; one thing I never hear people talk about is key length to the fulcrum. It seems to vary a lot, for example we have a 45 inch Yamaha P2 with much shorter keys (an inch or so) than our Steinway 45 inch. Also I’ve got an old Weber with keys on the shorter side, but a 57” upright with keys a bit longer yet than the Steinway. It’s a huge difference in the feel, when getting one’s brain around treating the black and white keys as equal in importance. My own view is that the shorter keys are okay but one ought to have experience with both, and it’s something I would pay attention to in buying a piano.

​@@CharlesLangSamuel That's a good point on the length of key length is an important component of a quality piano

@@RobertsPianosHouston Oh you know just now I remember a video your father made about little Eavestaff pianos having keys decisively too short. I’ve got a ~108cm Czech-built Rieger-Kloss (Bohemia) that also has relatively short keys, I’d have to measure, it’s in another town. It’s a high quality piano but for me it definitely affects how I feel I need to think about getting around the keys effectively while playing.