Steinway's double keyboard piano

[slobone]

Apparently Steinway once made a double-keyboard piano, and it's recently been restored. The New York Times has a video clip about it which can be found at:

https://video.on.nytimes.com/?mkt=videourl

The video shows Christopher Taylor playing some of the Goldberg 2-manual variations.

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[jlh]

It didn't make me register.  Interesting story!

Here's a shortcut to the video without searching for it:

https://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=51447a22df4808817b10c4ec7f31af913673f701

[thalberg]

Fantastic!!  I love it.  I hope Steinway builds more.  I played the Golbergs, and they were a pain on one manual.  Gyorgy Sandor in his book "On Piano Playing" talked about the Moore Duplex piano and said he hopes it makes a return.  He says the technique would be the same as for regular piano, but the possibilities would be greater.