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A potential source for troubles is the traditional keyboard design, which is optimized for diatonic scales and 12 tones per octave. | A potential source for troubles is the traditional keyboard design, which is optimized for diatonic scales and 12 tones per octave. | ||
For microtonal music with not more than 12 tones per octave, this is not such a problem - fingerings for non-standard scales can be learned. But it becomes a problem if you need more than 12 tones per octave, or even want a non-octave tuning, such as [[http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources/pitch. | For microtonal music with not more than 12 tones per octave, this is not such a problem - fingerings for non-standard scales can be learned. But it becomes a problem if you need more than 12 tones per octave, or even want a non-octave tuning, such as [[http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources/pitch.html|Wendy Carlos]] or [[BP|Bohlen-Pierce]]. | ||
There exist several solutions for this problem: | There exist several solutions for this problem: | ||
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard|Wikipedia article on generalized keyboards]] | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard|Wikipedia article on generalized keyboards]] | ||
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holford_Macdowell_Bosanquet|Wikipedia article on Bosanquet]] | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holford_Macdowell_Bosanquet|Wikipedia article on Bosanquet]] | ||
<span style=" | <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout|Wikipedia article on harmonic table note layouts]]</span> | ||
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout|Wikipedia article on the Wicki-Hayden note layout]] | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout|Wikipedia article on the Wicki-Hayden note layout]] | ||
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard|Wikipedia article on Janko]] | [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard|Wikipedia article on Janko]] | ||
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A potential source for troubles is the traditional keyboard design, which is optimized for diatonic scales and 12 tones per octave.<br /> | A potential source for troubles is the traditional keyboard design, which is optimized for diatonic scales and 12 tones per octave.<br /> | ||
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For microtonal music with not more than 12 tones per octave, this is not such a problem - fingerings for non-standard scales can be learned. But it becomes a problem if you need more than 12 tones per octave, or even want a non-octave tuning, such as <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources/pitch. | For microtonal music with not more than 12 tones per octave, this is not such a problem - fingerings for non-standard scales can be learned. But it becomes a problem if you need more than 12 tones per octave, or even want a non-octave tuning, such as <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.wendycarlos.com/resources/pitch.html" rel="nofollow">Wendy Carlos</a> or <a class="wiki_link" href="/BP">Bohlen-Pierce</a>.<br /> | ||
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There exist several solutions for this problem:<br /> | There exist several solutions for this problem:<br /> | ||
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<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on generalized keyboards</a><br /> | <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_keyboard" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on generalized keyboards</a><br /> | ||
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holford_Macdowell_Bosanquet" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on Bosanquet</a><br /> | <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Holford_Macdowell_Bosanquet" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on Bosanquet</a><br /> | ||
<span style=" | <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"><a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_table_note_layout" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on harmonic table note layouts</a></span><br /> | ||
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on the Wicki-Hayden note layout</a><br /> | <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on the Wicki-Hayden note layout</a><br /> | ||
<a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on Janko</a><br /> | <a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janko_keyboard" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on Janko</a><br /> | ||