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Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by Ma8ee on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:24AM (#25175161)
How about a very slow and gradual transition? Say so that in one or two hundred years we have reached the optimal size by reducing the standard every decade just by a little.
Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by tempestn on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:58AM (#25176032)
That's a cool idea, but even that rate would probably be too fast. The piano I bought for a few hundred bucks on craigslist is 113 years old this year and still going strong. Good pianos last a long time.
Re:Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards by Ma8ee on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:10PM (#25180619)
I was surprised when I recently learned that the big concert pianos that are used in the music halls usually lasts less than a decade. But of course, they are played constantly. I assume a home piano that in best case gets played an hour a day or so last longer. And most home pianos are rarely played at all.