Does This Look Odd To Any Of You?

[Bob Tedrow]

Has anyone seen Duet buttons spaced like this?

 

 

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/008.jpg

Edited September 18, 2007 by Bob Tedrow

[asdormire]

Has anyone seen buttons like this?

 

I don't see a link, Bob, or any buttons.

 

Alan

[paperpunchr]

Has anyone seen Duet buttons spaced like this?

 

 

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/008.jpg

 

Hmmm...I see the link and can open the photo...it does look slightly odd for a duet...spacing seems to have a mid-row hiccup...custom built for someone with an arthritic hand or a missing finger? Do both sides have the same irregularity?

 

Doug

[Dirge]

If that's a Maccan, (from the 6 button rows) is it an attempt to distinguish the 'floating accidentals' in the middle of the keyboard by pulling them out of line? The ordinary notes are in lines, the E flats are out. But why put the middle B off line?

 

I can see the sense in it if that's so, it'd give you that bit more confidence with location

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[Bob Tedrow]

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/003.jpg

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/006.jpg

 

 

here are a couple more shots of this interesting duet

[McIsog]

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/003.jpg

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/006.jpg

 

 

here are a couple more shots of this interesting duet

 

Bob! Stop playing with Photoshop and get back to work.

[chris]

Hi

Assuming that it's not just the strap that is Wheatstone, doesn't the serial number tell anything.

chris

[Bob Tedrow]

Hi

Assuming that it's not just the strap that is Wheatstone, doesn't the serial number tell anything.

chris

 

 

Serial #31176 1920's? It is a Wheatstone. Has the original sales ticket.

[Larry Stout]

The Horiman's Dikinson ledgers at http://www.horniman.info/DKNSARC/SD02/PAGES/D2P0580L.HTM give June 28, 1926 as the date. Looks like a 67 button Octagonal duet with white metal fittings, but otherwise not noted as special. In particular there's no notice of the unusual button spacing.

[Hooves]

Has anyone seen Duet buttons spaced like this?

 

 

http://hmi.homewood.net/duet/008.jpg

 

 

Do the extra notes at the bottom play? What are the actaul note values?

[wes williams]

If that's a Maccan, (from the 6 button rows) is it an attempt to distinguish the 'floating accidentals' in the middle of the keyboard by pulling them out of line? The ordinary notes are in lines, the E flats are out. But why put the middle B off line?

 

I can see the sense in it if that's so, it'd give you that bit more confidence with location.

Following the same logic, and assuming its a Maccann, the left hand side makes sense for the D/D# row, if the lowest note is a C. The right hand also seems to make more sense ( although still not totally logical) if you assume the lowest note is a C rather than a G.

 

But then again Bob, Dave Elliott sent me a keyboard diagram a while back that was a Maccann pitched in Bb, so expect the unexpected if you try to work out the notes!

Edited September 20, 2007 by wes williams

[Bob Tedrow]

follow up for those who are interested,

 

the buttons follow a Mccaan system, although the Bb and Eb keys are stepped aside to form their own row.

 

 

 

From Gaskins site I see that Eb keys on the RH side are typically appear in adjacent rows. perhaps this "oddification" (hmm, I have coined a new word here) was performed to allow octave doubles remain in the same vertical row as do the octave notes in the remainder of the Mccaan system.

 

Bob Tedrow