From Florian Anwander Sent Tue, Jan 16th 2018, 12:27
Hi Seth Am 16.01.2018 um 13:11 schrieb Seth Elgart: > Also, did Pratt-Read have hundreds of 44-key keyboards in stock so > that's what they bought or was that a custom design they specifically > asked for Pratt-Read had these in stock, because the 44 key F-C had been established by the organ industrie in the last 40 years before. They were industry standard. And why where they standard? I could imagine, because the average player (=average home organ buyer), was best in playing in C-Major. And he did not play a Rachmaninov improptu but "mary had alittle lamb". So he wanted tonica, dominant, tonica, subdominant: C G C G C G C F C.... Florian -- http://www.florian-anwander.de