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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...

Since my first meeting with Jankó piano maker Peter Reinert, I have kept the contact with him and had a lively exchange. My girlfriend and I visited him from time to time and we've become good friends by now. I was presenting him my slim-key Jankó design and described the steps to build it. The acoustic Jankó piano that he built in the past is a masterpiece, but it's an incredibly large effort to build it and would cost quite a lot - most likely too much, especially because almost nobody...