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Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by skybrian on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:47PM (#25174494)
If you're willing to break with tradition, couldn't you go digital and bring your own keyboard? I haven't played an acoustic piano in years.

In theory, we could have acoustic player pianos available as MIDI output devices, so you could still get the sound of one while using your own keyboard.

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Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by autarch on Saturday November 21, 2020 @11:08PM (#25174854)
> In theory, we could have acoustic player pianos available as MIDI output devices, so you could still get the sound of one while using your own keyboard.

Not a theory. Such things have existed for quite a while. See https://disklavier.com/

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Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by Nition on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:16AM (#25175874)
Long enough that it's the Disklavier line because the early models used a floppy disk for storage.
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