Are there two sizes of keyboards to a Piano? Have you ever seen one?!
Question: In 1962 my neighbor was moving and gave me a piano, It sounded like an upright but had a smaller keyboard. Not an Organ It was a Piano. I have never seen another one like it. I don't have it any longer. :(
Answers: In 1962 my neighbor was moving and gave me a piano, It sounded like an upright but had a smaller keyboard. Not an Organ It was a Piano. I have never seen another one like it. I don't have it any longer. :(
The most likely candidate is Melodigrand; a brand of the Winter company. Melodygrand made short (width) pianos with 64- and 73- key keyboards. Despite their diminutive size, they were robust instruments that used high-quality materials. IIRC, they used a laminated soundboard ... perhaps a minus in most books ... but the instruments were intended for service use in schools, churches, and rec halls. They were also ideal for apartment dwellers and smaller homes where a full width piano would not fit. Every example I have seen was in a console configuration, but they also built short (width) grand pianos.
Another odd-ball was the 54-key Tom-Thum made by Kohler & Campbell ... I've never seen one, and expect that they were of a lower quality than the Melodigrand.
Samick makes (or made) an upright/console with 85 keys (range A to A; missing the top three notes) rather than 88 and called it a "German Scale"
There is, or was, a piano action manufacturer that was set to produce keyboards with a slightly narrower key width ostensibly for use by women and children or other people with smaller hands. I think the plan was to have the keyboard installed as an option on normal production pianos, so the size of the instrument would not have changed.
yes ...
theres a reg piano scale
and then there's a smaller scale.
I think that they are the same unless it is like a small grand and a big grand piano but I am not sure if the keyboard is any smaller. I know there is a difference on a not a piano keyboard.
There are MANY sizes of piano keyboards.
I've seen some with about 50 somethings keys. 90 something keys.
Pianos are very interesting!