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Author: jarvis on June 20 2006

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why isn't a layout like this commonplace? is it because it costs too much to manufacture? it seems like it would help people spend more time learning theory than the fingering of the instrument itself

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06/20/06 + jdg

never b4 have heard/seen/known of this jenko.

seems like a f'd up typewriter.

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06/20/06 + jarvis

there's a similar layout thats called something else, i just can't remember what it is. there's a japanese company making keyboards like this but the website is all in japanese... i'll have to try to find that again

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06/20/06 + jdg

please do.

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06/20/06 + jarvis

link
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google!

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06/20/06 + Roshi

Crazy. I don't think enough people think about how our instruments (and what notes we can play easily on them) shape our music.

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06/20/06 + jdg

wow, that chromatone looks fun

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06/20/06 + mlbot

not quite an even number of keys, but could the monome be made to trigger midi in such a fashion? link

gah there was an eastern European controller that looked like this in musicthing awhile back but I can't find it

i did find the MIDI sock puppet
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06/20/06 + poolbath1

i would like a midi cock-ring please invent ok byebye

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06/20/06 + kovakone

crazy stuff

06/20/06 + lunatinker

my uncle built a custom piano once with a different pattern of black and white keys. It was hot. and very confusing

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06/20/06 + mlbot

why did he do it, luna?

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06/20/06 + bb01

was it dr moog (wasnt it?) that found it disappointing that designers would attach traditional keyboards to synths- he thought the way to play should be as revolutionary as the instruments themselves (if I remember right)
see also the buchla instruments

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06/20/06 + Roshi

There was a synth released recently that used a pressure sensitive ribbon controller as the note input, so you were free to play quarter-tones, microtones, etc. I wish I could remember the name.

Someone should make and market a usb version. Though I guess midimapping the microtones would be a nightmare.

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edited: Jun 20 2006 + jarvis

wtf edit makes a double entry?!?!

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06/20/06 + jarvis

that's the persephone fingerboard controller

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