[sdiy] Where to get special white keys?

[Sadpaul]

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On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Ingo Debus wrote:

>
> Am 25.02.2009 um 20:32 schrieb cheater cheater:
>
>> I'm slowly thinking of building my own keyboard. It would not have  
>> the
>> usual octave pattern/layout, and instead have alternating white and
>> black keys.
>
> Hey, that's an idea I had decades ago! It seemed quite appealing to  
> me: learn two major scales, one starting on a black, one on a white  
> key and you can play them all. Also, the player isn't as affixed to  
> traditional western scales as with the piano-type keyboard.
> There are alternative notation systems that would reflect that type  
> of keyboard pretty well. See here:
> http://musicnotation.org/
>
>
>> Now the black key is not a problem... where would I get a white key
>> shaped like that, though?
>
> Do you want to keep the width of the white keys, with a smaller  
> width of an octave, or do you want to keep the width of an octave,  
> with wider white keys? In the former case the distance between the  
> black keys would decrease, and using traditionally sized black keys  
> would make it difficult to place a finger on a white key between  
> black keys. But in the latter case I don't see any alternative to  
> making keys from scatch.
>
> Please keep us posted!
>
> Ingo
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