We need to raise $50,000 to help present the annual International Stretto Piano Festival, which features NYC's only public Stretto grand piano with narrower-than-conventional keys. During the live, in-person concerts in NY, international artists will perform exciting programs on the Stretto piano (Steinway 7'4") and audiences will get the opportunity to try this instrument and experience first-hand its tremendous value.

Additionally, our long-term goal is to create a dedicated concert hall and educational space in New York City where we will host Stretto Piano Concerts — the first phenomenon of its kind to present performances, lessons, workshops, and groundbreaking new instruments with narrower-than-conventional keys. Our aim is to give people a choice of piano key size.

Join us to learn more about this exciting and innovative piano that is changing lives for the better. This 21st century phenomenon creates joy, creativity, and equality for all hands!

The time has come for artists and audiences to experience narrow keys in live performances! Our future concert hall will offer two pianos: a conventional grand piano and a stretto grand piano that can serve all demographics and sizes of people. Let's act in a timely manner and have as many Stretto Piano Concerts as possible as soon as we can!

"Stretto" means "narrow" in Italian. These instruments bring equity to the piano industry and have inspired a worldwide movement in which musicians are choosing narrower keys. Narrow keys not only help pianists with smaller/medium hands play more advanced and difficult repertoire and also help pianists avoid and recover from playing-related injuries.

Led by pioneers who have worked at this development for decades, our community includes dedicated musicians from five continents, who have rebuilt their pianos to have stretto keys or have bought stretto pianos. In fact, 75% of pianists today are not satisfied with the conventional width of keys and are clamoring for smaller ones.

Most people don't even know these pianos exist and supply chain issues have slowed the production of many instruments over the past three years. Our work will help motivate manufacturers and related companies to act productively with us.

Pianists have been forced to play instruments that don't fit them for over a century and it's time to make a change. Most other instruments come in many sizes to accomodate a player's size. A diminutive violinist would never play a huge violin — just look at the Suzuki violin schools all over the world.

Conceived by the New York City-based pianist, educator, singer and composer, Hannah Reimann, Stretto Piano Concerts and the annual International Stretto Piano Festival are celebrations of the Stretto piano, to better accommodate players with smaller hands. Audiences and critics are invited to experience in-person, live-streamed, and pre-recorded performances from dozens of Stretto piano concerts on stages, universities, private studios and homes from around the globe.

This year, the International Stretto Piano Festival will hold live, in-person concerts at Baruch College's Engleman Hall from July 19 - 22 using Ms. Reimann's Stretto Steinway grand piano — which was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal with her, "a musican on a mission."