[sdiy] Symmetrical Keyboards

[Roman Sowa]

Or another interesting concept - Ragzpol - a pole/pipe that lets you 
play different scales only by sliding a finger.
I'm affraid the creator has lost hope for bringing it to wider audience, 
so the website is gone. Here are the last pieces of description I could 
find:
https://www.newsreview.com/chico/run-it-up-the-ragzpol/content?oid=33043
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/014892603322022709?journalCode=comj

Roman

W dniu 2018-02-19 o 12:37, sleepy_dog at gmx.de pisze:
> Hey all,
> 
> In my quest for old keyboards I accidentally stumbled upon this:
> 
> http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/
> 
> Interesting. I have thought about that for a long time, but don't know 
> too much about music theory as to come up with an own scheme that makes 
> sense, but alternate coloring to orient oneself on a "not chromatic" 
> (hah that sounds contradictory) layout keyboard, that much seemed obvious.
> So not only I, someone who occasionally plays things by ear and has not 
> pounded scales into his mind, thought something like this could be a 
> good idea.
> It's actually hundreds of years old.
> 
> So one guy mentioned there changed his Kurzweil into a symmetric layout 
> by ordering a lot of replacement 'D' keys. But how to get the extra 
> small keys in there, the keybed would not have support for that?
> 
> Anyway, at some point I might further investigate this subject.
> Maybe a few other people also find this interesting.
> (in one youtube thread a self-professed 40-years virtuoso pianist didn't 
> see the point of alternate keyboards and "scales are no problem, just 
> practise them". But if you have a mind that sees and strongly dislikes 
> inefficiencies and obviously unnecessary work, it's really tough! Lol.)
> 
> 
> - Steve
> 
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