Re: Keyboard (synth) with wide keys


Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
In my spare time, one of the things I do is work for a UK charity called REMAP that makes specialised aids for the disabled. I recently had a request from a young disabled man who is learning to play a keyboard. His left hand is normal but his right is severely distorted due to arthritis such that he can only play one fingered with this hand and the adjacent fingers (which he cannot move) tend to get in the way and press adjacent keys. He asked if there were any keyboards available with wider than normal keys - 25 to 50% wider should be sufficient. Anyone know if such keyboards exist?

If not I guess its a case of rip his existing one apart and building a special keyboard - not a prospect I relish.

Cheers

Ian

Could you not approach this from another angle and make some sort of device he could grip in his fist and use to press normal keys? A solution one can use in all circumstances tends to be rather more useful.

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