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The Jankó, or “uniform,” keyboard is a weird-looking alternative layout for keyed instruments. It supposedly makes playing different scales easier by bringing notes closer together. Each row is made up of a series of whole steps, and adjacent rows are offset by a half step each. Like this:

This is the layout the Chromatone keyboard is based on, and for other examples, check out the via link below.
(via Squeezehead)

The Jankó, or “uniform,” keyboard is a weird-looking alternative layout for keyed instruments. It supposedly makes playing different scales easier by bringing notes closer together. Each row is made up of a series of whole steps, and adjacent rows are offset by a half step each. Like this:

This is the layout the Chromatone keyboard is based on, and for other examples, check out the via link below.

(via Squeezehead)

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