Hi List, I have a close friend who is a piano tech and rebuilding who owns an authentic Janko keyboarded piano. In his, the rest of the action is all very ordinary; i.e., the hammers are sitting on a conventional rest rail. In fact, the Janko keyboard itself can be replaced with an ordinary keyboard easily enough. In noodling around with it, I found that in addition to being able to use the same fingering for all similiar scales, the span for a given interval was less, and thus presumably easier to reach. It was probably just a great idea that happened along centuries too late to compete with the standard musical keyboard. Too bad. Robin Blankeship ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Sivak To: pianotech Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:53 PM Subject: Janco keyboard List Whoa, check this out! I've never seen anything like this before! I know that typewriter keyboards have been reinvented for faster speed and yet no one uses them because everybody's in a rut. Now I know how they feel. Item number: 140067612730 Tom Sivak -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061226/88d60191/attachment.html
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