Janco keyboard

[Robin Blankenship]

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


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