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The History and Attitudes to The Smaller Piano Keyboard in Japan

I am writing about the history and attitudes to the smaller piano keyboard, and the current situation with piano education in Japan. The span of my hands is 6.89in (17.5cm). There are many people who have small hands in Japan. Many Japanese people having small hands cannot play an octave; I am one of them. The history of smaller keyboard pianos in Japan "I have been thinking for a long time about a piano equipped with two exchangeable keyboards (conventional keyboard and smaller keyboard), to be used according to a player's needs, and I have found such a piano in Japan." These words by Leonid Kreutzer [1] were presumably written before the Second World War. But, the piano department chief professor of the then School of Music (current College of Music) said, "If this piano is used, the fingers of hands will bend", and stopped the production of these pianos. Noboru Toyomasu [2] asked the piano engineer Hataiwa Ohashi [3] of Diapason [4] to build