@@andybaldman It clearly wasn't obvious what exactly you meant, for three reasons: 1: "Key" means multiple things, so it's not always clear which is meant, which you experienced with the uploader. 2: Because it's fairly common for people to mistake Janko keyboards as having more notes than a typical piano. 3: Further, the wording of your comment is grammatically correct when interpreted in a way you didn't mean, and not grammatically correct with respect to your intended meaning. So it's really easy for your comment to be misconstrued as a joke about the keyboard being microtonal or something.
There's more mass, but since they are levers and the levers are longer, the force required is about the same as a normal piano, or actually a little less than a normal piano on the lowest row. The highest row does require more force like playing towards the back of a normal piano key.
Very interesting. I'd imagine manufacturing costs are greatly increased and probably why it never caught on. Although we're seeing similar things manifesting in the form of alternate grid controllers, like Ableton Push. Different concept but I'll bet it wouldn't be too difficult to apply this on similar hardware.
if your still alive and able to make videos on the Janko..... May I suggest a crazy Boogie Woogie jazz!
Lovely work on this Janko !
Do you know how to work on these pianos? Im so glad you made videos on this curiosity!
Are there any recordings of pieces played on the Janko?
How many keys do you want?
Yes.
There are only 88 key levers, but each lever has three tops. If you notice, when I press a key, that same lever causes three key tops to go down.
@@jankopiano577 Lol, I meant tonal keys, not physical.
@@andybaldman
This keyboard doesn't have any more tonal keys than a typical piano either.
@@Persun_McPersonson My comment was referring to the number of times he changes key in this demo. Jesus, is it that hard to understand?
@@andybaldman
It clearly wasn't obvious what exactly you meant, for three reasons:
1: "Key" means multiple things, so it's not always clear which is meant, which you experienced with the uploader.
2: Because it's fairly common for people to mistake Janko keyboards as having more notes than a typical piano.
3: Further, the wording of your comment is grammatically correct when interpreted in a way you didn't mean, and not grammatically correct with respect to your intended meaning.
So it's really easy for your comment to be misconstrued as a joke about the keyboard being microtonal or something.
What does the keyboard feel like? There must be more weight to keys like that, right?
There's more mass, but since they are levers and the levers are longer, the force required is about the same as a normal piano, or actually a little less than a normal piano on the lowest row. The highest row does require more force like playing towards the back of a normal piano key.
Very interesting. I'd imagine manufacturing costs are greatly increased and probably why it never caught on. Although we're seeing similar things manifesting in the form of alternate grid controllers, like Ableton Push. Different concept but I'll bet it wouldn't be too difficult to apply this on similar hardware.