Hello all. It looks like others have "discovered" the Uniform Keyboard(Symmetrical Keyboard). I am looking to get this manufactured and marketed by someone who has vision like 31416erre. The staff for this instrument is also much easier. The staff is simply the chromatic staff with 6 lines....no sharps, flats or key signatures. If interested, my website is uniformkeyboardsystem and my patent number is 7253349.
Hey! Wonderful play! I tried to learn play piano by myself recently and read some music theory books. Then I found the 7+5 design is just terrible because modulation is so common today. I've been thinking about 6+6 keyboard and tried Google it, but there isn't any Chinese material about uniform , 6+6 keyboard , or symmetrical keyboard. I'm so happy that someone have already made it and played so good. Awesome! I really hope I can get one keyboard like yours in China.
Very nice! Beautiful playing and a beautiful instrument. Am I missing something or is it every _other_ key produces the same fingering? For a given chord or scale, I think there are two fingerings. For example, you can play a wholetone scale on either the "black" or white keys, as you did on the "black" keys while performing the piece.
First of all Janko made this variant with two rows of regular keys. Later he discovered that he could make a keyboard with many rows for the symmetrical shapes of chords and so on being reduced optionaly to one per chord type, scale type and so on. And yes it is difficult to rearrange a regular piano keyboard to such a design. I tried it myself and I stuck. Unfortunatelly [b]31416erre[/b] is not here to explain more as he said he will.
Yes, no doubt about that. I am talking about the symetrical conception.
In fact back in 1997 or 1996 when I started play guitar I also invented for myself a symetrical keyboard with 4 key-rows (independant and allowing you to play tremolo sequences of two identical notes). Later in 2004 I saw the upcoming web-page for Janko's work. I was amazed! 130 years back someone had the same idea. Of course a 2-row white-black keyboard is still the better choice for convetional players.
Where did you get this? I would like one, seriously. I can't find any
ShadKiklas 2 months ago
@ShadKiklas
Hi, I transformed the keyboard myself.
As far as I know, no manufacturer makes them... a shame really!
31416erre 2 months ago
Hello all. It looks like others have "discovered" the Uniform Keyboard(Symmetrical Keyboard). I am looking to get this manufactured and marketed by someone who has vision like 31416erre. The staff for this instrument is also much easier. The staff is simply the chromatic staff with 6 lines....no sharps, flats or key signatures. If interested, my website is uniformkeyboardsystem and my patent number is 7253349.
jcsaltsman1 5 months ago
Hey! Wonderful play! I tried to learn play piano by myself recently and read some music theory books. Then I found the 7+5 design is just terrible because modulation is so common today. I've been thinking about 6+6 keyboard and tried Google it, but there isn't any Chinese material about uniform , 6+6 keyboard , or symmetrical keyboard. I'm so happy that someone have already made it and played so good. Awesome! I really hope I can get one keyboard like yours in China.
zrqsmcx 5 months ago
I've been dreaming about this all my life... hence my little profile portrait. How I wish I knew how to build something like this...
jdean9 1 year ago
@jdean9 By the way.. I forgot to say... lovely playing! This goes right into my favorites
jdean9 1 year ago
@jdean9 Thanks! Really like your icon!
31416erre 1 year ago
Very nice! Beautiful playing and a beautiful instrument. Am I missing something or is it every _other_ key produces the same fingering? For a given chord or scale, I think there are two fingerings. For example, you can play a wholetone scale on either the "black" or white keys, as you did on the "black" keys while performing the piece.
jmoriarty 1 year ago
@jmoriarty Thanks! You're right, there are two fingerings, depending on if you start on a white or a black key.
31416erre 1 year ago
@31416erre Thanks for the reply. Again, beautiful job!
jmoriarty 1 year ago
First of all Janko made this variant with two rows of regular keys. Later he discovered that he could make a keyboard with many rows for the symmetrical shapes of chords and so on being reduced optionaly to one per chord type, scale type and so on. And yes it is difficult to rearrange a regular piano keyboard to such a design. I tried it myself and I stuck. Unfortunatelly [b]31416erre[/b] is not here to explain more as he said he will.
adXok 1 year ago
Is it difficult to make this modification to a normal keyboard?
jdean9 1 year ago
Check out Chromatone, that's the real stuff. :)
Sawa137 2 years ago
Yes, the idea is nearly 130 years old and the inventor is a hungarian engineer, mathematician nad musican called Paul Jankó.
Leonard Euler (a swiss mathematician and physisist) invented another instrument of a symetrical concept called Tonetz which Axis-64 is representor of.
adXok 2 years ago
The Janko keyboard is different in that there are 6 rows, whereas mine has two and is more similar to a traditional keyboard
31416erre 2 years ago
Yes, no doubt about that. I am talking about the symetrical conception.
In fact back in 1997 or 1996 when I started play guitar I also invented for myself a symetrical keyboard with 4 key-rows (independant and allowing you to play tremolo sequences of two identical notes). Later in 2004 I saw the upcoming web-page for Janko's work. I was amazed! 130 years back someone had the same idea. Of course a 2-row white-black keyboard is still the better choice for convetional players.
adXok 2 years ago
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xylenz 1 year ago
Where did you get this keyboard?! Custom?
I really love symmetrical chords, scales, intervals... etc...
Octave - 1
Tritone - 2
3rd - 3
m3rd -4
2nd - 6
5th -12
dds12345res 2 years ago
Yes, it's custom made. As far as I know, no manufacturer makes them...
31416erre 2 years ago
nice one p
frankblame 2 years ago
Symmetrical keyboard...very interesting, seems more easy to play with such a keyboard.
bigzthe 2 years ago