One Key - Two Key Narrow Key - New Key
- Linda Gould
- May 24
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
(The Tale of a Narrow-Key Piano with a Grand Ambition)
In a corner she waits, looking slender and neat,
With just forty-one inches from end cap to seat.
She’s narrow, she’s trim, not a wide-keyed canoe—
But oh… what Athena the piano can do!
With keys that are narrow And closer in span,
She makes magic doable
for an everyday hand.
No need for a stretch
like a spider with shoes,
Now you can play pieces
you thought you would lose!
Those octaves? A breeze.
Those tenths? A delight!
No cramping, no reaching, no pinky in flight.
No more of that grunt
when your fingers fall through—
Oh…what Athena
will magically do!
She laughs at Rachmaninoff’s
thunderous chords,
And dances through Chopin’s
cascading rewards.
Etudes that once
made your wrist bones cry “Mercy!”
Now flow like a river,
precise and so perky.
Gershwin? Oh Gershwin!
Those jazzy old sweeps—
Athena just winks and she purrs as she leaps.
With stride and with swagger, with rhythm and zip,
She nails every run with a wink and a flip!
That left hand once useless,
Now bold and alive!
That Liszt piece you shelved?
Can finally thrive!
Those big-boy bravados once meant for the few—
Are suddenly ready and waiting for you!
She's sleek, not a tank,
but her powers are vast,
She shrinks every span
but not tempo or blast.
So don’t let her size make you feel she’s too small—
Athena, my friend, can outplay them all!
So come ye with fingers too short, hands not wide,
Come dancers of digits with talent and pride!
The grand works you dreamed of
are no longer through—
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Oh,.. what Athena —
yes, Athena!
— can do!
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