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  • Marcelo · 2 years ago
    Fantastic!! But must be very difficult to play it!

    http://file-of-the-day.marcelo7300.com.ar/
    MarC
  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    Kate: I didn't know you could play the piano.
    ALF: Well, I was winging it, its tough to play without the red keys.
  • solak · 2 years ago
    For computer users, I agree with #2 flareback, but what musical instruments have you looked at lately? There's no "c#" label on a saxophone or violin. Except for pencil marks for first-year students, I've never seen labels on a piano keyboard.
    The black and white pattern is sufficient to locate the octaves and notes within octaves. This keyboard also has a pattern, albeit a different one, so in principle it could be a very powerful musical interface. In fact, have you ever seen an accordion? The left hand of a piano accordion, and both hands of a conventional accordion, have a hexagonal arrangement of buttons, with the only label being a different shape of the end of one or a few of the buttons.
    Now, whether it will actually catch on depends on many factors, some random, others that I am not qualified to evaluate.
  • solak · 2 years ago
    oops, sorry for the mis-reference. I pasted from another discussion and clicked Submit too soon.
  • Joh Drinda · 1 year ago
    What's the layout? Is it a W/H or C/B-system?? I wouldn't trust just any layout.