{"id":3532,"date":"2011-03-16T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2011-03-16T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T09:01:05","slug":"the-janko-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-janko-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jank\u00f3 keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nJanko Piano<\/a>
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I am not a musician, although there are plenty of those in my family. I did play the violin for a year or so as a kid, but my piano skills were for years limited to one-finger versions of Incy Wincy Spider<\/i> and one or two more other tunes.<\/p>\n

However, a few days ago one of Dougie’s golf friends donated his old Yamaha PSR-530 keyboard to us, which made me study a couple of the GarageBand<\/a> piano lessons that you get for free with a Mac.<\/p>\n

After that experience, I felt a bit like I did when I was learning to drive<\/a> – I kept asking myself why it was designed so badly.<\/p>\n

However, a quick Google search taught me about the Jank\u00f3 keyboard<\/a>. You can read the details by following the link, but basically you can transpose a tune simply by shifting your hands.<\/p>\n

It never seem to have become very popular, but there is a Japanese company making a similar MIDI keyboard. Here is a demonstration:
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