<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I might be missing the point but in my opinion a lot of these designs just trade one problem for another. (If you consider it a problem of course.) E.g.: simple tri-tone chord patterns are still dependant on whatever root you’re playing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More interesting in this respect is perhaps Roger Linn’s Linnstrument. I believe the LED patterns on it are adaptive. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=STz__28Scwc" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=STz__28Scwc</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Feb 2018, at 23:29, Dave <<a href="mailto:dlmanley@sonic.net" class="">dlmanley@sonic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Back in PAiA/Polyphony magazine days there was an article about a "new" keyboard layout by Mel Sohler. Here's the patent:<br class="">
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<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US4054079A/en" class="">https://patents.google.com/patent/US4054079A/en</a><br class="">
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And a pic:<br class="">
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<a href="https://goo.gl/images/gtP1JT" class="">https://goo.gl/images/gtP1JT</a><br class="">
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I only scanned your linked article but the idea looks very similar.<br class="">
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-Dave <br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On February 19, 2018 3:37:51 AM PST, <a href="mailto:sleepy_dog@gmx.de" class="">sleepy_dog@gmx.de</a> 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 class=""><br class="">In my quest for old keyboards I accidentally stumbled upon this:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/" class="">http://www.le-nouveau-clavier.fr/english/</a><br class=""><br class="">Interesting. I have thought about that for a long time, but don't know <br class="">too much about music theory as to come up with an own scheme that makes <br class="">sense, but alternate coloring to orient oneself on a "not chromatic" <br class="">(hah that sounds contradictory) layout keyboard, that much seemed obvious.<br class="">So not only I, someone who occasionally plays things by ear and has not <br class="">pounded scales into his mind, thought something like this could be a <br class="">good idea.<br class="">It's actually hundreds of years old.<br class=""><br class="">So one guy mentioned there changed his Kurzweil into a symmetric layout <br class="">by ordering a lot of replacement 'D' keys. But how to get the extra <br class="">small keys in there, the keybed would not have support for that?<br class=""><br class="">Anyway, at some point I might further investigate this subject.<br class="">Maybe a few other people also find this interesting.<br class="">(in one youtube thread a self-professed 40-years virtuoso pianist didn't <br class="">see the point of alternate keyboards and "scales are no problem, just <br class="">practise them". But if you have a mind that sees and strongly dislikes <br class="">inefficiencies and obviously unnecessary work, it's really tough! Lol.)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">- Steve<br class=""><br class=""><hr class=""><br class="">Synth-diy mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" class="">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br class=""><br class=""></pre></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Synth-diy mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br class="">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>