The Chord-o-tronic Keyboard System -- Page 1
First published on the PARSE Software Devices website September 17th, 2005
© Copyright 2005 by Robert Krten, all rights reserved; revised August 27th, 2007.
I like to tinker with music, and I came up with this idea, which I call the "chord-o-tronic keyboard system."
Instead of trying to make the left hand and the right hand go "against" each other, why not let them
be the natural mirrors that they are? That is, let notes go from lower frequencies at the thumb
through to higher frequencies at the pinky, for both hands, instead of lower-to-higher for the
right hand, and higher-to-lower for the left hand.
The result is the following:
This keyboard would be used similarly to an accordion; the top (lowest notes) would rest against the
player's chest, and the highest notes would be closer to the player's lap.
Alternatively, the keyboard could be arranged in a linear fashion, just like a traditional piano keyboard, except with a definite "split point":
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