Sunday 22 December 2019

Piano 42 - supplemental

A zoomed-in bit of the illustration to the last post (reference 1).

I did not find a produce reference, but I did find enough to make me think that someone trained to a real piano would take quite a while to fully get to grips with this thing.

Perhaps it is like modern word processors, so packed full of functions that very few of us get further than scratching the service. Indeed, one might have thought that there was room in the market for a seriously cut-down version, but this is not a thought which Microsoft seems to have brought to market.

The keyboard is rather shorter than that of most real pianos, but for church purposes this is not, it seems, a problem, as one only uses the far ends for more complicated music than is appropriate in a church. I also thought that the keys might have been slightly narrower than those of a real piano, with the brain well able to adjust on the fly, rather as one can adjust from a full size keyboard to the one that comes with a mobile phone.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/12/piano-42.html.

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