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	*THE START* Geza Loso, son of a musician-family, born 1951 in Budapest as a left-handed with an excellent hearing, was criticized during his studies of concert-pianist and piano-teacher at the Bela-Bartok academy of music in Budapest, with the argument that as a left-handed he could not give the correct expression to his music by playing piano with a right hand.

	In 1973, without a piano for left-handed people, Geza Loso tried for the first time to play left-handed by using a wooden board that he equipped with a left-handed keyboard, arranged at a scale 1:1. His wish to play left-handed and to reconstruct the piano became reality.
	In 1975, the pianist of concert, the piano-virtuoso and music-teacher Loso moved to Germany and received a German citizenship. Since 1980, he has been active as piano-teacher at the regional music-school in Trier-Saarburg. In 1989, he married the graduated pedagogue Monika Schütt with whom he got three children, Frédéric, Jefferson and Marylin, all left-handed people. They have successfully accomplished their training. For one year, they were learning playing piano at the upright piano arranged for left-handed people according the new notation of their father. In 09.09.1992, the German patent office in Munich received a letter from M. Loso mentioning for the first time upright pianos, pianos and electronic keyboard-instruments arranged for left-handed people. He writes: This music-instrument represents the mirror image of instruments on the actual market. For the first time left-handed people receive a real chance to learn how to play the piano on an adequate instrument. left-handed people would basically use their right hand to accompany and the skilled hand to handle the main functions of a piano-play, to play the melody. This is very decisive for every artistic interpretation. Already in 1992, Geza Loso played during 3 months on his mirrored keyboard, due to a midi-processor from the EES M3 line. Unfortunately the touch-dynamic keyboard of his instrument was not sufficient.

	His concert-skills range from classic, jazz to u-music. Travels trough the USA, France, England, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium always offered him the opportunity to express his ideas about pianos equipped for left-handed people. In his first attempts, he failed to develop (his project to realise) a piano for left-handed people, due especially to financial reasons and the difficulties resulting from the realisation of an upright piano. The idea is not simply mirroring a keyboard, but compared to a piano, more technical aspects have to be considered in order to develop a left-handed upright piano, starting with the development of the steal plate, the masterpiece of this type of piano. A completely new instrument had to be realised. In 1998, Geza Loso bought a keyboard of the company Kawai, developed for left-handed purposes which allowed him to create an identical touch-dynamic keyboard for an upright piano. REALISATION The final breakthrough for the left-handed came in 2000. The famous company Blüthner in Leipzig, whose owner is a left-handed as well, adopted the idea of Loso and realised the model Blüthner Nr.4, the first worldwide commercialised upright piano for left-handed people. In 2001, this type of piano was presented for the first time on the international fair of music in Frankfurt. LATEST PROJECTS Geza Loso equipped his upright piano with the correct notes, because according to himself, people playing on a left-handed piano should also read the notes from the left. The notes are corresponding to the keyboard of a left-handed, but the principle is exchanged on the keys of the piano: The high tones are on the left side, the deep tones on the right. With the new notation, the mind processes rhythmic signals faster. The sense of moving the fingers corresponds now with the note-sequence. Students of Geza Loso learn easily with the new notation. The left-handed musicians are doing fast progress and learn with much greater joy. left-handed piano players are no more disadvantaged and can now express their full potential. Geza Loso raises the complexity of this new type of keyboard and the recently developed notation. Compared to the development in dental treatments, where dentist-chairs for left-handed dentists already exist, Geza Loso expects the same evolution in the music-schools. Upright pianos arranged for left-handed people should be at disposition in music academies and conservatories. New music-schools are planned. Geza Loso hopes that left-handed piano students may one day express their music abilities with the hands they are born with.

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