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One day my friend Panos told me "Hey, why don't you apply at the Superbooth in Berlin to show your Janko keys. They support all kind of small start-ups for musical innovations". I was pretty excited about the idea, I've never been an exhibitor before and the Janko project was still so young. I wrote an email to the organizer and not much later got an answer: They thanked me for the application, but there is a lot of demand this year and they can't promise me a spot, but they put me on the...

In the meantime, I've recorded plenty of videos on the RR Janko Keyboard, had many interesting conversations about it and several people bought their own one. There was one issue, though, that many people expressed in their comments and I agreed with them: The classical layout in combination with the slim Janko keys looks pretty messy. I had experimented with different color layouts already before, but I thought that the classical layout might help people see the similarity with the regular...

The Jankó is here! While Peter and I are preparing for making this Jankó version available for many people, I've used the time to start sharing the knowledge about the Jankó piano, why its layout is the way it is, what isomorphism is, how to play chord shapes and scale fingerings, and why it might actually be a pretty nice approach to piano for guitar players. Check out the LEARN section on this website and my YouTube channel for more content: https://www.youtube.com/@rico-raven May this...