<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It was probably just a great idea that happened along centuries too late to compete with the standard musical keyboard. Too bad.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robin Blankeship</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net href="mailto:tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net">Tom Sivak</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Janco keyboard</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>List</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now I know how they feel.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Item number: 140067612730</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tom Sivak</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>