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having the keyboard the way it is also allows you to more easily orient yourself, you can feel with the sides of your fingers if you are next to E/F or B/C and
by tetraodonpuffer 1y ago
having the keyboard the way it is also allows you to more easily orient yourself, you can feel with the sides of your fingers if you are next to E/F or B/C and with the corner of your eye it's also straightforward to figure it out. I don't think it'd be possible (or anyways even more difficult than it is now) to play large jumps accurately if the whole keyboard looked the same
- paulgerhardt 1y agoI think both of those concerns were addressed by the Dvorak of piano keyboards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard Has the symmetry of GP while large jumps are accomplished by shifting up a row or two. I assume it didn’t take off for the same reason Dvorak didn’t.
- ajuc 1y agoMake a dimple on every C key and paint it red.
- toast0 1y agoThat's all fine and dandy, except early apple keyboards have the dimples one key over :p
- bluGill 1y agoThere are multiple alterative layout that some advocate for. they generally do sonething else for orintation. putting a bump on middle c and other places.