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oliver sudden
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« on: 09:33:08, 04-03-2007 »
An advertisement recently seen in the 'Sponsered Links' [sic] Wink led me here:

http://www.glenngould-chair.com/

I thought perhaps some of you might like to know about it. I couldn't think of a thread where it could be said to belong so here's a new one. It can go wherever you want it to (the thread, not the chair, although maybe that can too). Do pianists among us have a special chair they use in performances? Will there be an Ian Pace Chair? Or a trained-pianist Chair?

Or have more of us been attracted to the Sponsers above? Oo look, drywipe boards!
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Bryn
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« Reply #1 on: 09:43:32, 04-03-2007 »
Well we know a keyboard player who recently got a chair, don't we Ollie? Wink
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« Reply #2 on: 10:18:30, 04-03-2007 »
At first I touhgt I did not care much about how high my chair is. Then I went through a period that I thought I want a shorter chair, but did not want to cut the legs of a bench. Plus one needs a higher chair for some students.
Now I sit higher, than in the previous period. May be pianists have to resign themselves for a little backpain.

A lot depends how long the person's back (spine) is.
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« Reply #3 on: 10:27:13, 04-03-2007 »
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« Reply #4 on: 10:28:03, 04-03-2007 »
http://www.woodmark.com.au/images/products/p125-h-Swivel%20Chair%20print.jpg
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #5 on: 10:28:33, 04-03-2007 »
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« Reply #6 on: 10:29:34, 04-03-2007 »
Wondering what to do with those old phone books?

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/classes/bookbuild/hartman_chair.html
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« Reply #7 on: 11:09:00, 04-03-2007 »
This bench is slopped forward.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:14:50, 04-03-2007 »
Mr Gould's chair looks incredibly uncomfortable...  Shocked
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« Reply #9 on: 11:17:03, 04-03-2007 »
Mr. Gould was very eccentric and used to sit so low down with his arms in the air to play - it used to fascinate me.  I've tried it but it doesn't work for me.  I have to be quite high up.  My piano stool (which is a duet stool) was very high when I bought it, so I got a joiner to take some off the legs - but it's still higher than normal.  Perhaps I've just become used to it.
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« Reply #10 on: 11:57:38, 04-03-2007 »
Wonder how this one would work as a piano stool:
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #11 on: 12:00:26, 04-03-2007 »
Well it would certainly eliminate the old peering at the music (&/or the keys) problem.

On the other hand I'm not sure if the fingers would be meeting the keyboard at an absolutely ideal angle. Except perhaps if you sawed off the piano's far leg?
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« Reply #12 on: 12:02:03, 04-03-2007 »
Or this one?



Might be nice for the neighbours. Although you'd have to fit the piano in as well.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #13 on: 12:03:00, 04-03-2007 »
Do any of us here have this problem?
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