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  Musical keyboard at AllExperts
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds.
Musical instruments with keyboards of this type include the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, organ, electric piano, electronic piano, digital piano, synthesizer, "arranger keyboard" or "home keyboard" (also called "electronic keyboard"), celesta, dulcitone, accordion, melodica, glasschord, and carillon.
In particular, the arranger keyboard uses pre-set drum rhythms which respond to chords played in the left hand by the instrumentalist, with other buttons and switches used to change rhythms and even the voice of the instrument.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mu/musical_keyboard.htm   (983 words)

  
  Musical keyboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds.
Musical instruments with keyboards of this type include the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, organ, electric piano, electronic piano, digital piano, synthesizer, "arranger keyboard" or "home keyboard" (also called "electronic keyboard"), celesta, dulcitone, accordion, melodica, glasschord, and carillon.
In particular, the arranger keyboard uses pre-set drum rhythms which respond to chords played in the left hand by the instrumentalist, with other buttons and switches used to change rhythms and even the voice of the instrument.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musical_keyboard   (863 words)

  
 Kaspar Wicki--The Wicki System--an 1896 Precursor of the Hayden System
This produced Jankó piano keyboards which actually had one row of 88 keys cut in complex shapes, but which appeared to have six rows with 44 keys (and 44 spaces) in each row—which appeared to have 264 keys total—in the same horizontal space of a conventional piano keyboard.
That was the 1883 patent, and it resulted in a keyboard which could be played with equal facility and with the same fingering in every key signature.
A three-part keyboard results: the central region of the natural notes is enclosed by the accidentals, raised half a tone on one side and lowered half a tone on the other side.
www.concertina.com /gaskins/wicki   (4141 words)

  
 Enharmonic keyboard at AllExperts
A typical keyboard will have one key for, for instance, C sharp and D flat, but a basic 17 key enharmonic keyboard will have two different keys for these notes.
One of the first instruments with an enharmonic keyboard was the archicembalo built by Nicola Vicentino, an Italian Renaissance composer and music theorist.
Many instruments with enharmonic keyboards were built during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
en.allexperts.com /e/e/en/enharmonic_keyboard.htm   (288 words)

  
 beautifulstranger Milf
It implements a standard piano keyboard and piano voice (often including voices other than the standard pianoforte, and often emulating MIDI voices), which are usually created by digital signal processing exactly.
An organ pedalboard, a keyboard played by the organist's feet, may vary in size from 12 to 32 notes.In a well-designed keyboard, the natural keys are of uniform width at the front, and all keys are of uniform width at the back; this is not true of some inexpensive or toy keyboards.
This arrangement was inherited from the harpsichord without change, with the trivial exception of the colour scheme (white for naturals and fl for sharps) which became standard for pianos in the late 18th century.
beautifulstranger.blogspot.com   (12446 words)

  
 Ebtex Original Keyboard Design
The keys are not connected as in the Janko keyboard because, remember, this is electronic, not mechanical so there are no considerations other than ergonomics and theoretical chord structure.
When you press a fl key you are unlikely to accidentally sound the adjacent key because full depression of a fl key is roughly even with the white keys undepressed height.
I made a full size paper diagram of this keyboard to test the general feeling of fingering patterns and was very much encouraged by the naturalness of movement with respect to a real piano layout.
www.ebtx.com /music/music03.htm   (863 words)

  
 blog :: Janko Keyboard - the linear momentum of the markets.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Janko Keyboard - the linear momentum of the markets.
I read about the Janko Keyboard design in E. Tenner's "Our own Devices" back in the day.
Anyway, it turns out that some superior ideas may try to fight the economic imperative after the first defeat: Chromatone 312 is the Janko Keyboard revitalised after 123 years.
www.digital.udk-berlin.de /~jussi/b2/blog.php?p=110&more=1&c=1   (85 words)

  
 Jankó keyboard
On this keyboard tenths, and twelfths, can easily be produced by reaching a finger to the keyboard above or below that on which the hand is traveling.
Arpeggios through the whole compass of the keyboard can be executed with a sweep of the wrist, which on the ordinary keyboard would hardly cover two octaves.
Indeed, with the Jankó keyboard, the hand and arm of the player can always remain in their natural position, because to sound an octave requires only the stretch of the hand equal to the sounding of the sixth on the ordinary keyboard.
improvise.free.fr /janko.htm   (646 words)

  
 Janko's Keyboard Generator For Windows 95, 98 and ME Home
Staring from 1 January 2007, Janko's Keyboard Generator For Windows 95, 98 and ME is not being sold anymore.
I've created Janko's Keyboard Generator For Windows 95, 98 and ME in 1995, after the Windows 95 was officially released.
Janko's Keyboard Generator makes it easy to setup a native Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME keyboard layout for any Latin or Cyrillic-written language.
solair.eunet.yu /~janko/engdload.htm   (2833 words)

  
 Musurgia - Fine, Rare & Peculiar Musical Instruments
It was Janko's contention that the horizontal layout of the standard piano keyboard was ill-suited to the limited stretch of human fingers.
The Janko keyboard offered pianists the ability to play the full compass of notes found in an octave (the eight tones that make up a diatonic scale) within the normal span of a player's hand, with the advantage of using one fingering pattern for all twelve scales.
The 1890s and early 1900s were the "Golden Age" of the Janko keyboard, heralded in 1891 with the founding of the short-lived Paul von Janko Conservatory in New York City.
www.musurgia.com /products.asp?ProductID=758   (440 words)

  
 300 Years of Piano Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The terpodion, a keyboard instrument invented by Buschmann of Gotha.
Bowles, Edmund A. On the origin of the keyboard mechanism in the late middle ages.
The keyboard instruments by the firm August Förster in Czechoslovakia Klávesové nástroje znacky August Förster Czechkoslovakia.
www.mozartpiano.com /biblio.html   (12436 words)

  
 The Uniform Keyboard
For any of these keyboards with duplicate rows, if you learn to play a piece and stick to one fewer row than is available on your keyboard, you can instantly transpose to any key by simply moving to a different starting position.
For details on other music keyboard layouts, see my keyboard layouts pages.
Mario Aschauer has written a fascinating article about Jankó, based on his correspondence with Marie Katholicy-Soffé during the latter half of the 19th century (the correspondence is in the collection at the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Vienna).
www.red-bean.com /~noel/uniform-keyboard   (1447 words)

  
 Carl Elliott: Our Technologies, Ourselves
The conventional keyboard requires a performer’s fingers to stretch so much that in the 19th century, according to Tenner, surgeons were employed to sever the tendons between a player’s fourth and fifth fingers in order to increase their span.
The music that the pianists were performing was supposed to be difficult, often extremely difficult, and the Janko keyboard made it easy.
By the 1920s the Janko keyboard had faded away, and could be seen only in museums.
bostonreview.net /BR28.5/elliott.html   (1467 words)

  
 Accordion Piano Keyboard Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
as a chromatic accordion, except for a different shape to the keyboard notes and piano keyboard layout.
Sound is made by a thin metal ribbon, a reed, that is held at one end and free at the other, like a ruler on the edge of a table top.
The piano keyboard was first put on an accordion by Bouton of Paris in 1852.
www.musical-instruments-guide.com /OPG/accordion-piano-keyboard-notes.html   (790 words)

  
 Jankó Keyboard
It is also known as the uniform keyboard.
Your keyboard may differ, and some customization might be required of software to play music.
There was already a Shockwave version, but it doesn't seem to react to the keyboard.
blossomassociates.net /JankoKeyboard   (586 words)

  
 Unicode and multilingual file conversion, font and keyboard utilities for Windows computers
Janko’s Keyboard Generator produces keyboard layouts (.kbd files) that can be used as replacements for ones already on your system.
Keyboard Layout Creator allows new keyboard layouts to be produced and existing ones to be modified.
Keyboard Manager is produced by Milan Vidaković and Igor Milijašević; registration ranges from the Lite version at US $15.00 to the 2000 version at US $65.00.
www.alanwood.net /unicode/utilities_fonts.html   (2581 words)

  
 Keyboard Layouts
The idea of making my own keyboard layout was born from the simple demand.
Switching between the layouts happens as usually with MS Windows built-in keyboard input locale switch with the selected language indicator visible on taskbar.
His very nice program called Janko's Keyboard Generator will do this and even little more with ease.
gamma.nic.fi /~point/keyboard.htm   (430 words)

  
 Thai keyboard layout for Windows95
You need Thai keyboard layout file (zthai0.kbd) to be loaded when you want to type in Thai.
But zthai0.kbd was generated by Janko keyboard generator, map to Thai Kedmanee keyboard layout.
Keyboard layout file was generated with "Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows95", Janko Stamenovic
www.fedu.uec.ac.jp /ZzzThai/windows/kbd.html   (516 words)

  
 Bulgarian Bulgarian Fonts For Windows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Friday 02nd of September 2005 02:29:18 PM bulgarian uses the same characters that russian does...so, i use the russian,myself...maybe if you can't find it and you want the characters without the extra russian letters (which are only two i think) you can probably search for a keyboard generation program, such as janko's keyboard generator.
Janko's keyboard appears to be for Windows 95, 98 and ME, with development ceasing in 2002 for XP.
The keyboard layout is different between Russian and Bulgarian which is what is throwing me off.
www.phrasebase.com /archive/bulgarian/bulgarian_fonts_for_windows.html   (694 words)

  
 Keyboard Generator for Windows 2000?
Both systems were using keyboard files (.kbd) which had been modified using Janko's Keyboard Generator.
The information online by the author of the Keyboard Generator (Janko Stamenovic) is outdated and gives no indication of recent progress on producing a Keyboard Generator for Windows 2000 and XP.
I need the keyboard layout in Russian to co- incide with the English one, i.e.
www.webservertalk.com /message150666.html   (595 words)

  
 Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME (Shareware Edition) version history
Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME (Shareware Edition) version history
Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME (Shareware Edition)
Version history for Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME (Shareware Edition) shows you how often it was updated over the past months (starting) as well as 'what is new' information for each update (if available, since this information provided by the author).
www.softpile.com /apphistory/janko_s_keyboard_generator_for_windows_95_98_and_me__shareware_edition_.html   (102 words)

  
 piano keyboard layout (piano keyboad layout) information.
Janko's keyboard drew upon earlier designs by Conrad Henfling.
Janko's Keyboard Generator For Windows 95, 98 and ME Home
This piano keyboard was patented in 1882 by the Hungarian, Paul von Janko.
www.hostkhiladi.com /spellcheck/p/piano_keyboard_layout.html   (111 words)

  
 French Accents on a QWERTY keyboard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This, combined with a visceral hate of dead/compose keys, and the need to write French (my native language), has prompted me to design a usable solution to keep the programming-oriented QWERTY layout with the availability of non-dead-key french accents.
Keyboard remapper (seems out of buisness, can be downloaded here),
There are no keypad per se, but I apply the same strategy (PSION+key) to input accents on a QWERTY keyboard.
colas.nahaboo.net /AccentsKeypad.html   (303 words)

  
 keyboards [TranslateWiki]
Its easy if you are simply capturing the keyboard operation from an existing platform eg migrating a Microsoft based keyboard to Linux.
However, if you are creating a whole new keyboard then you have a number of issues such as acceptance of the keyboard and standardisation processes.
In the keyboards/za module in CVS there is an example of how to rebuild these files correctly (for the South African keyboards).
translate.sourceforge.net /wiki/keyboards?DokuWiki=d30945993f97ad05cd0e1f1c5c0d1f5e   (669 words)

  
 Hitsquad Music Software Discussion :: View topic - Tom's Music Thing - Sweet Jesus! What's that girl playing?
The keyboard layout was patented in 1882 by Hungarian mathematician/musician Paul von Janko.
This red keyboard is the Wholetone Revolution MIDI controller, which seems to have been out of production for a while.
In addition to the Janko keyboard, it seems to have quite a lot of features, including a 5 track sequencer.
www.hitsquad.com /vocal/archive/o_t__t_203__view_next__index.html   (204 words)

  
 Janko's Keyboard Generator For Windows 95, 98 and ME Answers
They programmatically fixed positions of command and non-printable keys, and to change them you have to use different keyboard driver, instead of default provided with Windows, or you have to get the special low-level extension of the keyboard driver.
Include the acknowledgment that this file was generated with Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME and also put the links to Janko's Keyboard Generator Home page (this page) and my e-mail address.
The keyboard input part of non-Asian versions of Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and ME opearting systems is designed by Microsoft to work with codepages.
solair.eunet.yu /~janko/e95faq.htm   (1766 words)

  
 Useful Resources
Downloadable free software keyboard layouts for Windows 2000/XP which offer a number of accented and other characters from the Unicode character-set via dead keys for use on US and UK keyboard hardware respectively.
Romanian Academic is set of keyboard layouts for the Mac OS, which includes a Unicode keyboard compliant with the Romanian national standard SR-13392/1998.
Keyboard layouts for use with Keyman are available for many languages, and custom keyboard layouts for both simple and highly complex scripts can be quickly designed and packaged for distribution with Keyman Developer.
www.unicode.org /onlinedat/resources.html   (2234 words)

  
 MICROTONAL KEYBOARDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The top keyboard at left belongs to a virginal now residing in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul Von Janko's 1875 generalized piano keyboard was not intended for microtonal purposes, but the layout has inspired similar microtonal keyboard patterns.
A just intonation 22 key per octave keyboard including split naturals, built in 2001 by Willard Martin for Christopher Stembridge, based on the 17th century work of Salinas and Ban.
www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfaah/emancipation/keyboards.htm   (646 words)

  
 Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME ENHANCED version history
Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME ENHANCED version history
Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME ENHANCED
Version history for Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95, 98 and ME ENHANCED shows you how often it was updated over the past months (starting) as well as 'what is new' information for each update (if available, since this information provided by the author).
www.softpile.com /apphistory/janko_s_keyboard_generator_for_windows_95_98_and_me_enhanced.html   (98 words)

  
 Welkya - Cyrillic Keyboard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If you have non-US keyboard (German, Finland, French and s.o.) I do not recommend to download the file above, but create a new one with the Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95.
Same file but zipped if you can't downloaded as it is. Be aware that this file can not be changed as the file for Windows 95.
FlexType will install them for you and also has utility as the Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95 to change the layout of your keyboard.
www.bulgaria.com /welkya/cyrillic/keyboard.html   (861 words)

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