Comments on: The Six-Six Keyboard http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/ by Craig Meyer, inventor/engineer/consultant/speculator Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: craigrmeyer http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-330 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:23:28 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-330 The strips were also helpful as tactile cues, yes indeed, but at the time I was only thinking about having C, D and E look different. For a real-deal tactile cue it would be something more like you describe, with sandpaper or little bumps or something. That would be better.

]]> By: PavelK http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-329 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:04:21 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-329 I thought the blue strips on white keys were there to allow playing without looking, by having a differrent surface texture, right? Was it not enough?

By the way, the left hand side of the accordion is obviously played blind, and so some of the buttons are differrent. The tops are curved (domed) in instead of out or have ridges.

]]> By: craigrmeyer http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-261 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:31:38 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-261 Thanks, Krisoffer.

The “6-6″ keyboard isn’t perfect. It’s hard to play “blind”. You gotta look at it to remember where you are, while the traditional 5-7 keyboard’s asymmetry gives it a “feel” so that your hands know where they are. Eh. I still think it’s nifty.

]]> By: Kristoffer http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-260 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:21:34 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-260 Great instrument you’ve made! Makes so much more sense with 6 white and 6 black keys. More intuitive and you can play from any key without a lot of learning.

Kristoffer

]]> By: bradley http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-254 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:52:35 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-254 Craig,

thank you… thank you so much. I will look it up.

Cheers,
Bradley
http://www.bradleydeanwhyte.com

]]> By: craigrmeyer http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-253 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:25:15 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-253 Hiya Brad,

That’s a Yamaha QY-70, which are going for ~$200 on eBay now. Go crazy!

]]> By: bradley http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-252 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:48:40 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-252 Hi Craig,

The midiman controller at the top: what is the model name of it? Who makes it? I am experimenting with attaching a midi controller to my electric guitar but I want a really small one with miniature keys like the one in the picture. I can’t find any on line. It looks like it’s about the size of, like, a pocket nintendo game (I’m old and don’t know what they are really called.)

I would really love to hear back from you or anyone who may know.

Thank you,
Bradley

]]> By: ekpaulson http://longshotcity.com/2009/05/27/the-six-six-keyboard/#comment-188 Thu, 28 May 2009 19:34:55 +0000 http://longshotcity.com/?p=678#comment-188 I agree that having a different layout for different chords is “bullcrap” when you have a keyboard tuned to equal temperament (as many probably are these days) but the standard layout makes some sense from the perspective of different keys being different when other temperaments are used (as is often the case for pipe organs).

I think that equal temperament is why pianos always sound out of tune to me.

Your keyboard is pretty cool, though!

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