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I really don’t think this is true. I don’t think what’s provided here is better for piano than standard notation, but much of standard notation is optimized to
by burke 8y ago
I really don’t think this is true. I don’t think what’s provided here is better for piano than standard notation, but much of standard notation is optimized to be easy to write by hand. We don’t really need that constraint anymore, and could probably come up with a notation that would be easier to build familiarity with without throwing away information.
- furgooswft13 8y agoI'm curious what you, or anyone else, thinks could be improved without just being different. I've seen suggestions such as ditching accidentals and just giving every note their own line or space, but that would make it much harder to recognize common chords or shapes in different keys. Really the problem is the piano layout itself. It's designed to make playing C major easy and everything else hard (though many experienced players would say they prefer a scale with lots of black keys such as B major because those are easier to hit accuratley). Of course there's already an answer to that, the Janko keyboard[1], which has been available for well over 100 years. It has a regular layout for easy transposition, and allows each hand to reach a wider range of notes without large jumps. Perhaps music notation would have evolved differently if this type of keyboard had been prominent. Alas we got what we got, and have a massive catalog of music designed for it, and already experienced piano players certainly are not going to try to help change that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard