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Alternatively Sized Piano Keyboards

ALTERNATIVELY SIZED PIANO KEYBOARDS​

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  • Keyboard history
  • Pianists’ hand spans
    • Hand span data – recent Australian study
    • Earlier hand span studies
    • Hand span versus height
    • Pianists versus non-pianists
    • Measuring hand spans
    • Hand span versus interval reach
    • Defining a ‘small hand’
    • How many adults have small hands?
    • References & links – hand spans
  • Pianist Feedback
    • Overview of pianists’ experiences
    • Adjustment and swapping between keyboards
    • Technical ease
    • Effective practice and speed of learning
    • Experience of pain and injury
    • Repertoire choice
    • Musical differences
    • Memorisation and sight reading
    • Overall comfort and enjoyment
    • References – pianists’ experiences
  • Pain, injury and performance quality
    • Overview of pain, injury and performance quality
    • Hand size as a risk factor
    • Ergonomic and biomechanical evidence
    • Comparative studies involving alternatively sized keyboards
    • Performance quality
    • Impacts of aging
    • Stretching exercises – benefits, limitations and dangers
  • Competition Results
  • PASK
  • Resources
    • DS Standard Foundation
    • Other websites and blogs
    • Videos and Recordings
    • Manufacturers and where to try alternatively sized keyboards
    • Recent publications and other useful documents
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Overview of pianists’ experiences

Adjustment and swapping between keyboards

Technical ease

Effective practice and speed of learning

Experience of pain and injury

Repertoire choice

Musical differences

Memorisation and sight reading

Overall comfort and enjoyment

References – pianists’ experiences

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