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88 white unmarked keys on a piano would be madness. You forgot the black keys.
by MartinCron 14y ago
88 white unmarked keys on a piano would be madness. You forgot the black keys.
- chimeracoder 14y agoThe piano/keyboard isn't my main instrument, but I'm not sure that the color of the keys would make a huge difference. Practiced/professional violinists, for example, don't use sight to figure out how to place their fingers, and pianists don't even have to worry about tuning the way violinists do.
- lnanek2 14y agoThe two people above you are pretty much saying the same thing. Piano keys being unmarked and making sense to pianists as the best way was being used as proof that using keys not marked with arrows could be the best way for editors. I'll throw in with agreeing as well, my piano teacher hated when music had finger numbers on it and things like that, using them just slowed you down and messed you up, especially when the hands changed positions. Labeled piano keys would be bad because it would prevent people from learning the right way to play.
- charonn0 14y agoIn many (most?) early pianos the colors were reversed.
- andrewflnr 14y agoYou would only really need a reference point every octave. I've always felt that having "sharp notes" on, basically, their own row of the piano was silly, and I've speculated on how one could design a sane keyboard that puts all (musical) keys on an equal basis... In short, the black (physical) keys are part of the madness. ;)
- mkl 14y agoYou may be interested in the Janko keyboard layout then: http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/music-thing-the-chromatone-312/ http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/music-thing-the-chromaton... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard I really want one.
- MartinCron 14y agoSo do I. That looks insane,
- andrewflnr 14y agoNot quite what I had in mind, but definitely interesting.