Tri-Chromatic Keyboard 01 (trichromatic vibraphone)

A brief description and demonstration of the Tri-Chromatic Keyboard, an instrument I invented to study the symmetry of music. For information, contact RoyPertchik@Gmail.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• theory
• jazz
• harmony
• keyboard
• vibes
• vibraphone
• symmetry
• chromatic
• barry harris
• diminished
• trichromatic

[nbenmargi]

I met you and heard you play this thing at burning man! Thank you for sharing your beautiful sounds with us!

[Roypert]

@nbenmargi

Cool! Thanks for stopping by, there, and here :-) I'm in Oakland, CA now. I'll try to go to BM again this year, if I'm still in the west :-)

Cheers

[cedevitt]

Does this keyboard have all of the same notes as a traditional? Meaning, could one just re-arrange the keys on their old vibes to try this? (I realize the resonators wouldn't be right). I'd love to try this out. What note do you start with @ bottom, and is it arbitrary?

[Roypert]

Yes it has all the same notes. But you can't just rearrange vibes bars. If you rearrange them, the holes for the cords don't line up. Mine was custom built by Nico vanderPlas, from Eb and up three octaves to F, because I wanted to have a flatted 7th available below the F for F dom7 chords. The coloring I use starts with a red Eb, a white E, and a black F, and continues in that rotation all the way up, and I hope you will stick to that as others who are trying my layout have.

[Sawa137]

Tricolouring is an interesting concept, I can see that it could be useful. I'm working on a chromatic colouring as well, maybe I will incorporate these ideas into it. I'll let you know.

Your instrument is really pretty and neat, but it's hard to tell which notes you're hitting in real time. Maybe next time you could film it from a different angle, or make marks/signs in your video editing software.

[Roypert]

By all means, try the trichromatic coloring. Be aware that I have patented it, and will appreciate attribution. If you intend commercial use, lets talk. Thanks.

[RoyPertchik]

Hi c33r0k33, thanks much. I've heard of a harp like that, and I'm looking forward to trying one someday!

[c33r0k33]

Roy,

This is absolutely cool. I hope it catches on. This reminds me of a Janko keyboard type format. I play a stringed harp inspired by a similar pattern. The cross strung chromatic harp. I wonder WHY we didn't just use this system to play a long time ago? To me it just makes sense.

[Roypert]

I'd like to hear what you are doing. Do you have anything posted? The thing about my TriChromatic keyboard is that it makes it much easier to access a harmonic method that makes some really wonderful music. It's quite a powerful method and I am currently trying to document the breadth of what it can do.

[spectralmusic]

I play bilinear chromatic keyboard, which has traditional colours to identify notes. Personallly, I think it keeps it familiar to musicians and its easy to override it mentally too.