Double-Keyboard Piano

rojo

(Ret)
What do peeps think of this?

Edit: Link wouldn't work.

I want one! :bawl:

There's a video that one can watch, but I had some trouble with it.

I bet our organist friends here who are used to more than one kb find this completely boring... (just kidding :grin:)
 
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Krummhorn

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Hey, that is so cool ... and realizing the advantages to the added keyboard in obtaining the higher notes without having to have hand like Cesar Franck :grin: . Fascinating video ... nice to see this in use by a pianist.

Quite the opposite feeling for me, Rojo - I equally love the piano about as much as the organ ... I do have a piano at home - I've got 24/7 access to my church organ, so the best of both worlds.

Check this site if you want to see some other Strange & Unusual Pianos . A different versions of double keyboard, the longest piano, double ended grand, and others. :cheers:

Kh :cool:
 
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Krummhorn

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Yah, they are neat ... I like the double-ended grand the best - :up:

I suppose the Janko keyboard would be easy to navigate once one learned where the keys are placed. Wondering it this layout has any logical continuity - or how he came about this particular key order. (?)
 

Andrew Roussak

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Wow, great video, rojo - how interesting that one can use the ORIGINAL finger technique by Bach , and the result sounds still like a modern piano and not like a clavicembalo. And one doesn't have to fight with that crossing- hands patches anymore playing the Variations.
Great , and the collections of that odd pianos is also interesting - I guess the Janko keyboard would require a totally different technique - like learning a new instrument, which has nothing to do with the traditional piano. BUT THEY HAVE THE SIMILAR SOUND - I guess it was a deciding mistake of the promoters. Maybe they should have tried to sell this idea not as a piano with an unusual keyboard, but as a kind of a compelely new instrument sounding not exactly as a piano as well - then it could get a chance to survive in this competition...
 

rojo

(Ret)
Well, if I understand correctly, the placement of the keys was so that one didn't need to have a different hand position for each chord. They all use the same hand position and fingering, the distances between the notes being the same. Also I think one doesn't have to stretch as far as with the conventional piano kb. I think I might have liked it!
 

Daniel Palmer

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I once went to a piano concert where there was a two-keyboard grand piano, but there was one keyboard at each end.

It was the only time I've ever seen a piano like it - has anyone else ever come across one? A quick google search didn't seem to bring up anything. Perhaps it was custom made for the husband and wife duo.

Daniel
 

NEB

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while I was a college we had a couple of rooms with pedal pianos in for organ students to practice on.
 

Contratrombone64

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I'd really like to see a quarter tone piano sail ... yeah, sail right past my office window up 34 floors.

I do love it when the west uses terms like "The World's biggest ..." or "The World's best ..." when they actually mostly mean America. I remember once see a comment about Hollywood being the producers of the World's most movies from any studio. I don't have facts, but surely Bollywood can beat them on this.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Hey CT64,

What do you have against quarter-tone pianos? They ain't done you no physical harm :eek::crazy:;):smirk:

Cheers,

Corno Dolce
 

Krummhorn

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Well, I for one was intrigued by this mention of a quarter-tone piano, and had to research it ... found this YT video that fairly sums it up:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU85bUyDPWs[/YOUTUBE]

Makes my hair stand on end ... being one blessed with perfect pitch, the sound is quite something else.
 
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