Interesting Split Keyboard

[aeolina]

New ergonomic wireless mechanical keyboard launches with dual touchpads, silent switches, and open-source ZMK firmware for deep customisation - NotebookCheck.net News https://share.google/hGGWIxY1gIHFAFD4A

[Michael Eskin]

Not sure what and of this has to do with concertinas, but here's the one I use, along with the tilt raisers:

https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/

 

[gcoover]

7 minutes ago, Michael Eskin said:

Not sure what and of this has to do with concertinas, but here's the one I use, along with the tilt raisers:

https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/freestyle2-for-pc-us/

 

 

It looks like the Freestyle2 could be easily converted into a practice Anglo or Hayden Duet (and maybe even a Jeffries Duet) by removing some of the excess buttons and reassigning the rest.

 

And the white Go60 that Aeolina mentions could perhaps be configured to mimic a Crane or Maccann Duet.

 

A nice challenge for all the boffins and fettlers amongst us!

 

 

Gary

[Steve Schulteis]

I've found unmodified keyswitches to be too large for comfortable concertina button spacing. Then again, there are at least a couple people using them in MIDI builds, and they seem unbothered. Maybe those guys just have really big hands?

 

I guess if you went the duet route you could do away with hand straps, which would make the button spacing less important. Maybe those touchpads could be used somehow to recover the lost expression of the bellows?

[gcoover]

I love the idea of your boss thinking you are furiously typing away and working really hard, when in reality you are just playing your favorite tunes and listening on headphones!

[Frank Edgley]

With no disrespect intended, electric devices are not concertinas. If you're going electric it may as well be a piano keyboard, Why not do away with all musical instruments and just use a keyboard that mimics the sound of trumpets, clarinets, saxophones etc. The technology is available.

[Richard Mellish]

29 minutes ago, Frank Edgley said:

With no disrespect intended, electric devices are not concertinas. If you're going electric it may as well be a piano keyboard, Why not do away with all musical instruments and just use a keyboard that mimics the sound of trumpets, clarinets, saxophones etc. The technology is available.

In my case the purpose is not at all to imitate a concertina. If I want the sound of a concertina I will play a real one. But sometimes I want a different sound, and I can play a concertina-style keyboard much better than I can play a piano-style one.

[David Colpitts]

4 hours ago, Frank Edgley said:

With no disrespect intended, electric devices are not concertinas. If you're going electric it may as well be a piano keyboard, Why not do away with all musical instruments and just use a keyboard that mimics the sound of trumpets, clarinets, saxophones etc. The technology is available.

And that technology allows me to sit in the living room with my dear family, iPad, headphones, various little MIDI keyboards (piano and button) without any audible disturbance to said family.  The concertina, OTOH, must be way back in the kitchen or upstairs.  So, absolutely different applications, in my usage, and the older I get, the harder to imagine being without either.

[aeolina]

Turn these sideways for an English:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Awekeys-reveals-all-metal-low-profile-mechanical-keyboard-keycaps-entering-development.1163375.0.html