key levelling -- crown?

[Don]

Hi Susan,

Curved keyboard has already been done. One of my books somewhere....grrrr. 


At 08:34 PM 11/16/01 -0800, you wrote:
>At 10:17 PM 11/16/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> >Has anyone given thought to the possibility that the crown was to
>> >accommodate the ergonomic fact that the tendency of the hand to lower
>> >when being extended from the body center?
>> >
>> >               Newton
>
>Not really. But reading your idea did give me a momentary mental picture --
>a keyboard in a slight arc surrounding the player, so that the player's
>hands could approach the keys at the extremes of the scale without
>kinking the wrists.
>
>It would be so much more comfortable to play that I'm sure many people have
>considered building something that way. The trouble is that it would
>be a bear to design and build.
>
>Educated list members? Has anyone built a keyboard where the keys
>fan out around the player like that?
>
>Susan 
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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