<div dir="ltr"><div>Found an old version of his website.</div><div><br></div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031120202717/http://ragzpol.com:80/">https://web.archive.org/web/20031120202717/http://ragzpol.com:80/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 5:38 AM, Roman Sowa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:modular@go2.pl" target="_blank">modular@go2.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Or another interesting concept - Ragzpol - a pole/pipe that lets you play different scales only by sliding a finger.<br>
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:<br>
<a href="https://www.newsreview.com/chico/run-it-up-the-ragzpol/content?oid=33043" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.newsreview.com/chi<wbr>co/run-it-up-the-ragzpol/conte<wbr>nt?oid=33043</a><br>
<a href="https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/014892603322022709?journalCode=comj" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mitpressjournals.o<wbr>rg/doi/abs/10.1162/01489260332<wbr>2022709?journalCode=comj</a><br>
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Roman<br>
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W dniu 2018-02-19 o 12:37, <a href="mailto:sleepy_dog@gmx.de" target="_blank">sleepy_dog@gmx.de</a> pisze:<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Hey all,<br>
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In my quest for old keyboards I accidentally stumbled upon this:<br>
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<a href="http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.<wbr>fr/english/</a><br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
It's actually hundreds of years old.<br>
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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?<br>
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Anyway, at some point I might further investigate this subject.<br>
Maybe a few other people also find this interesting.<br>
(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.)<br>
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- Steve<br>
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