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Lady Gaga’s Lead Keyboardist Invents 360° Keyboard With 294 Keys
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Lady Gaga’s Lead Keyboardist Invents 360° Keyboard With 294 Keys

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Lady Gaga’s shows are about to get a whole lot more awesome thanks to her lead keyboardist, Brockett Parsons, who has invented a wild circular synthesizer with 294 piano keys that he and his team of inventors have called the piano Arc (or the “Brockettship”).

This piano is not for the faint of heart, uniting three 88-note keyboards and a 30-key control section contiguously with multiple forms of digital inputs and outputs. Parsons writes, “the musical instruments’ key dimensions where the white/black keys intersect are the same as a traditional piano, and it seems to translate easily to most keyboard techniques. That being said, this is NOT your grandmother’s piano.

When asked why he created this amazing type of instrument, he said, “There’s really no reason to do this. This wasn’t made to make money, obviously. We just felt that we wanna do some cool invention idea.” In that case, mission accomplished!

More info: pianoarc.com (h/t: mymodernmet, gadgetify)

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    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

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    Roderick Sprague
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Zorak had one first. When I saw Zorak's keyboard, I realized at some point it would have an odd jump between the highest and lowest octave, then I realized a digital keyboard could be programmed to just keep going up or down in octave depending on your direction of rotation. At some point, it would go up or down out of the range of human hearing, though.

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    Roderick Sprague
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Zorak had one first. When I saw Zorak's keyboard, I realized at some point it would have an odd jump between the highest and lowest octave, then I realized a digital keyboard could be programmed to just keep going up or down in octave depending on your direction of rotation. At some point, it would go up or down out of the range of human hearing, though.

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