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Do piano players ever discuss rearranging the keys + pedals on a piano? (Not troll bait. Honest question.)
by dfc 15y ago
Do piano players ever discuss rearranging the keys + pedals on a piano?
(Not troll bait. Honest question.)
- bprater 15y agoThe piano keyboard is actually pretty well-designed with a very consistent design. Every key (both black and white keys) is a half-step from each other. Learning scales sucks initially, but once mastered, the dance is easy and fun.
- pkamb 15y agoI've often wondered this too, a "Dvorak for pianos". Googling it now turns up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout
- lbk 15y agoYes , two categories : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard These tackle the problem of how the normal piano layout requires different motor-memories for the same interval-patterns at different pitches . Janko and Wicki-Hayden are examples , as is layout of the chromatic button accordion . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard These are designed to work for various other tunings than standard 12-tone tuning ; i think most of them map some pitch-space to a hexagonal grid .