PIANO WITH 69 KEYS
A GERMAN INVENTION BERLIN, Nov. 18. A small piano with 69 keys instead of 85 lias been constructed by a German pianoforte maker, who lias been encouraged after the general slump in sales for years past by a demand for instruments to fit the borne of to dav.
it is declared that everything expected of an ordinary performer, not a concert virtuosos, can be accomplished on this new “baby” piano, the interior construction of which is exactly the same as that of the ordinary piano. The wires are thicker, and there arc less of them, but all the usual interior arrangements of an ordinary piano have been adapted to fit the compromise with the size of homes and the capacity of pockets in Germany to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18595, 4 January 1935, Page 4
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