Don Taylor Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Not sure what to make of this, I think that it has an EC-style isomorphic(?) keyboard[*] and will be in full production this spring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2NMV6TFSE http://en.dualo.org/ in English, or http://dualo.org/ in French They will cost about 1000 Euros [*] Cant figure out what it is but it seems to be a bit like a EC with the scale alternating between the hands, see: http://dualo.org/_dualo-org-wp3/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/The-dualo-principle.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Makes notes reading easierOn the left keyboard there are notes on staff lines and on the right keyboard, the notes on spaces. It does seem to be kind-of based around the principle of Wheatstone's English concertina fingering, only sideways... What a pity my new passport didn't arrive in time for me to go to the Musikmesse this year (nobody told me they'd changed the issuing system so drastically), I could have got to "have a go" on one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveM Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 On each side the arrangement is the "harmonic table layout", with the two sides setup to realize the English's idea of having a scale alternate from hand to hand in a sensible manner, and to give "lines on the left...". On the English, a downward pointing close triangle is sometimes major, sometimes minor (non-isomorphic).On the dualo, a given shape is always of a given flavor, in this respect it is more like a Hayden (isomorphic).Another way to look at it: it's taking alternating (slanted) rows of a Hayden and assigning them the the left-hand-side, right-hand-side, left-hand-side, so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocd Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 It is a MIDI controller. So, one could map the keys to any layout. For example, it looks like a good setup for a standard chromatic accordion layout. ocd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Simply amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I mean, they solved the problem of an isomorphic English - what more could one want... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_holden Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Looks pretty cool. It must have cost a fortune to develop; hope it's a success in the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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