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I guess this applies over the range, natural and digital - Does anybody find that the black keys could do with being a tad thinner, for those with wider fingers?
If you go into a shoe shop you can get wide shoes . . . .
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You have to develope your own technique... angle/tilt your fingers so they go between the black keys smoothly. Of course, this is one of the reasons I like to play in the key of C so much.  Rick
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Mason and Hamlin rosewood sharps were slightly narrower than "normal" - which would mean the gap is wider.
Alan from Queensland, Australia (and Clara - my Grotrian Concert & Allen Organ (CF-17a)).
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And older Baldwin sharps were a little taller.
Test the space between the three sharps. It's a little narrower than the space between C# and D# (on almost any keyboard).
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They vary. I had trouble getting my fingers between the keys of my piano teacher's first piano, but when she replaced it, it was easier.
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You can taper the sharps.
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