I love that video!! 😊😊😊😊

I also really have trouble doing big chords and playing harder songs because of my hand size.. I can barley play octaves 😅

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Yes! A rare man who saw the potential in another human's idea and performed ingeniously on it.

If more people would think like you in this way, the world would be better. I guess many people see things in the world an go with "That's how it is, you cannot change it." Of course you can, but many people do not dare to question the status quo. It's like Steve Jobs said: "Almost everything you see, manmade, has been created by people not smarter than you. Once you really believe that, you can change the world."

You play guitar really well and sing great. I started out with playing guitar myself. However I always loved the sound of piano so now I am learning piano. I'm in U.S and as much I want to get with this person, it is too expensive to get another new pianp and if I wanted to switch the keyboard of my existing piano it would be expensive the move the piano to there and back home. I wish I had known about his before I bought my piano.

@@vprajapa thank you so much. its good to know that you are learning piano as well, may be i can learn from you some day. i get very dissapointed when i cant play a few chords just because of the span and theres no motivation left to complete that piece after that. these people are trying to get portable piano makers to get into making the smaller keyboards. which if successful will make them cheaper and accessible. they do have a petition on their website. sign it if you can spare a few minutes. good to see you here😀

@@PriyankaThakur Well if I had opportunity to teach you piano ever in my life would be an honour. You can play piano without being able to reach 8th or 9th. Search for jonah ho on youtube, which will definitely give you inspirations. :)

mainstream piano makers are very slow to make any new innovations in keyboard design like octave widths. Most are still stuck in 1890 technology.

it sounds like as long as it's not a steinway u can take yours with u and just stick it in there

@@michaelfuria4257 - Repetition compulsion, sunk-cost fallacy, appeal to ancient wisdom fallacy, tradition over logic. Much innate human cognitive bias at play here. Even extremely intelligent musicians are susceptible to such errors in critical thinking. Plus, piano and keyboard makers are no longer artisans but bottom line oriented, risk-averse businesses.

yes they did it to Kawai mp11se in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kL6cntF6krDHZGw.html ( I know your comment is 2 years old but I post this just in case you hadn't found the answer yet and still wanted to know)

You can contact Cunningham Piano to order a reduced size keyboard: cunninghampiano.com

Steinbuhler has switched over to a non-profit. For the new site search: DS Standard Foundation

Steinbuhler's keys cost as much as an acoustic piano.

@@PassionPno Oh no that means I'll never be able to play a piano 🥲

Expecting a keyboard from Europe using cutting edge technology soon - see paskpiano.org

I have to hit the corner of C in order to play Ab-Eb-C

Fascinating question. I remember my old teacher Jorge Bolet struggling to fit his enormous hands in between the keys at times. The problem with designing a larger keyboard is that I believe you then have to redesign the entire piano body to fit - not an easy task!

From statistical data on pianists' hand spans, anyone which a reach of that magnitude is extremely rare. An 'average' Caucasian male with a 9 inch (22.9 cm) max span can play a 10th, but not particularly comfortably. For further information, see www.smallpianokeyboards.com. Women, on average, have a maximum span which is one inch (2.5 cm) less than for men.

yes, playing between the black keys can be a challenge with wide fingers. good point.

Me, many people I know and from my family have 11ths 12ths and 13ths, its somewhat annoying that sometimes you just want to hit one key and you end up hitting 2 >.

@@hughsung No, I don't think that's necessarily correct. It could be done. A normal piano keyboard has extra space occupied by the 'cheek blocks' or small wooden blocks at either end of the keyboard. This unused space could be reassigned to accommodate something close to maybe a 5% to 8% increase in overall keyboard width. It would be the same kind of adaptation as the Steinbuhler reduced-width keyboard except in reverse. The reduced-width modification is achieved by offsetting the angles of the key shanks towards the centre of the keyboard and you would simple offset the shanks to the outside to achieve a wider overall keyboard width. No need for a new main instrument. But what was the precise issue with George Bolet's hands? Most pianists do not not complain of having hand spans that are too wide. Usually they boast about this. Wide finger tips is another matter altogether. Fats Waller had big hands with a wide span AND wide fingers. It is said he would sometime grease his fingers to make it easy to negotiate in between black keys. That is the real issue for wide fingers, the space between blacks. So why not make a specific adaptation of the black key dimensions? Indeed, Steinbuhler has already done this to a degree. The traditional manner of shaping a black key is to give it a convex or slightly outward slanting sides, like a mild pyramid shape. But this shape actually impinges on the strikeable area between black keys where lay white key tails. It's actually rather inexplicable but hey, tradition is tradition. But Steinbuhler correctly realized that space between black keys would be at a premium in a reduced width keyboard and actually makes his black keys with narrower sides. The problem for a concert pianist is moving around from piano to piano. Steinbuhler has sought to address this issue with easily interchangeable keyboards and combined action stacks. So just now it occurs to me as I'm writing that Steinbuhler could an an to his product line: a keyboard of conventional width except with black keys modified to accommodate very wide fingers, i.e., blacks keys with straight sides or even ever so slightly narrowed individual width as well.

One size fits all is a lie. In many situations, it leaves out more than half of the world humanity. Women and non-white men often don't fit this discriminative one size fits all. We need to turn this around. We nned to have things designed fitting as many people as possible - or design various (or adjustable) sizes: pianos, phones, medical instruments, hand tools, car interiors etc etc

Steinbuhler actually patented an improvement to triangulate the highly angled key shanks at the extremes of the keyboard. This measure gives rigidity and strength. The rest can be accomplished with normal weight balancing that is done on any keyboard.