<html><head></head><body>Back in PAiA/Polyphony magazine days there was an article about a "new" keyboard layout by Mel Sohler. Here's the patent:<br>
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<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4054079A/en">https://patents.google.com/patent/US4054079A/en</a><br>
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And a pic:<br>
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<a href="https://goo.gl/images/gtP1JT">https://goo.gl/images/gtP1JT</a><br>
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I only scanned your linked article but the idea looks very similar.<br>
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-Dave <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 19, 2018 3:37:51 AM PST, sleepy_dog@gmx.de wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hey all,<br><br>In my quest for old keyboards I accidentally stumbled upon this:<br><br><a href="http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/">http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/</a><br><br>Interesting. I have thought about that for a long time, but don't know <br>too much about music theory as to come up with an own scheme that makes <br>sense, but alternate coloring to orient oneself on a "not chromatic" <br>(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 <br>pounded scales into his mind, thought something like this could be a <br>good idea.<br>It's actually hundreds of years old.<br><br>So one guy mentioned there changed his Kurzweil into a symmetric layout <br>by ordering a lot of replacement 'D' keys. But how to get the extra <br>small keys in there, the keybed would not have support for that?<br><br>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 <br>see the point of alternate keyboards and "scales are no problem, just <br>practise them". But if you have a mind that sees and strongly dislikes <br>inefficiencies and obviously unnecessary work, it's really tough! Lol.)<br><br><br>- Steve<br><br><hr><br>Synth-diy mailing list<br>Synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br><a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>