The Mission Impossible theme on harpsichord.

I found it while looking up thesis stuff about historical keyboard actions. Aren’t you glad YouTube exists?

Very pretty.

A pianist’s soul: Amazing composition between the pianist and the visualization of his way of playing, ‘the more different tonalities a piece has, the more colorful the visualization will be’, and since everyone plays different even the same song will result in a different visualization. The performance generates a three-dimensional image which appears to surrounds the performer and the listener. I love the use of infographics, the stripes allow one to say something about the composition aswell as the specific performance: Which notes were played the most? Which were the loudest notes? Which range of the keys was played mostly? How harmonically constant was the music? it A very evocative interaction, you can find all the project story here Clavilux 2000 [vvvv](via @mikelemmon)

(via tropicalbeauty)

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)