Jankó keyboard

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Music portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Isomorphic_keyboard/aoJFQNu2">Isomorphic keyboard</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Generalized_keyboard/qUMe0ayI">Generalized keyboard</a></li></ul>

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Janko keyboards.

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030802124256/http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/janko.htm">Pianoworld article</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thecipher.com/wholetone_keyboard_cipher.html">The Cipher for Whole Tone or Janko Chromatic Keyboard</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131021224938/http://www.thecipher.com/wholetone_keyboard_cipher.html">Archived</a> 2013-10-21 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://improvise.free.fr/janko.htm">Intuitive instruments for improvisers Jankó keyboard</a></li>
<li><a href="http://squeezehead.com/uniform-keyboard/">The Uniform Keyboard</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111004134835/http://squeezehead.com/uniform-keyboard/">Archived</a> 2011-10-04 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> (contains many pictures of instruments with Jankó keyboards)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/music-thing-the-chromatone-312/">The Chromatone 312</a> (MIDI keyboard and synthesizer with Janko layout)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/mouse_and_pc_keyboard_music.htm">Mouse and PC Keyboard Music</a> (Windows  program) - try out Janko layouts with PC keyboard (similar layout of keys) - any tuning for the keys.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gerd-r-hamann.de/ChromaKlav/Systeme/Klafuenf/indexE.html">Piano vs. Accordions including 6+6(Janko)</a> (Java Apps on Windows and Mac) - Try and compare many musical key layouts with vertically held keyboard.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.daskin.com">Daskin Manufacturing</a> (MIDI controller keyboards with Janko layout)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090125094835/http://www.wicki.org.uk/">Wicki.org.uk</a>, free UK site containing  Java, Flash, and PC applications to enable users to play their alpha-numeric keyboard to sound 12 equal tempered pitches using Wicki/Hayden or Janko layout.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tuningbell.com/isokeys">IsoKeys</a> is a free application that provides a Jankó keyboard on touch-screen Android devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gitorious.jamesjrh.isokeys">Hexiano</a> is a free and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131219141020/https://gitorious.org/hexiano">open-source</a> application that provides a Jankó keyboard on touch-screen Android devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w">Demo</a>, Demonstration of the advantages of the Jankó Keyboard by Paul Vandervoort, considered to be the world's foremost player of the device.  Program: "Kitten on the Keys" by Zez Confrey; explanation of the Janko note arrangement and advantages over a standard keyboard; demonstration of musical passages which are difficult or impossible to play on a standard keyboard; "C#-Major Prelude" from the Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach; Boogie-woogie rendition of "Bye Bye Blackbird".</li>
<li><a href="http://mtr.arcade-museum.com/MTR-1893-18-13/index.php?page_no=10&fname=MTR-1893-18-13-10.pdf">[1]</a> (A report on the Jankó keyboard shown at the 1893 Chicago Exposition)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Dolge, Alfred (1911). Pianos and Their Makers (book). Vol. 1 ((fulltext on Google Books link) ed.). Covina/Dover. pp. 78–83. ISBN 0-486-22856-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) <a href="0-486-22856-8" target="_blank">0-486-22856-8</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Naragon, Kristine (1977). The Jankó Keyboard. p. 25. OCLC 3805023. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Naragon 1977, p. 30. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Loesser, Arthur (1954). Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History. New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 567–568. ISBN 9780486265438. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) <a href="9780486265438" target="_blank">9780486265438</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Naragon 1977, pp. 15–17, 140–142 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Jankó keyboard