Radagast Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I didn’t find anything about this piano when searching this forum. Sinhakken piano https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/sinhakken-only-white-no-black-keys/ It’s would be very difficult to know where middle C is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinLeo Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Useless Quote NS4 73HA, Yamaha CK61, Korg C1 Air, Roland TD1-DMK, Harley Benton TalkBox, Sony F-760 dynamic microphone, Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen, M-Audio Track Duo, MacBook Air M1, Logic Pro X, Kontakt 7, Mainstage, Cubasis 3 (IOS), Korg Module (IOS), Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 24 minutes ago, MartinLeo said: Useless I dunno - could make me sound the best I've ever sounded! 2 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Woodward Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Gives me bad feelings and useless given the keys you can play in. 2 Quote Korg Grandstage 73, Keystage 61, Mac Mini M1, Logic Pro X (Pigments, Korg Legacy Collection, Wavestate LE, Sylenth), iPad Pro 12.9 M2 (6th gen), iPad 9th gen, Scarlett 2i2, Presonus Eris E3.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Gehrig Charles Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 The old beginner's trick of labelling the keys with a Sharpie will fix that right up now won't it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 F*** That. Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chummy Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 8 hours ago, Radagast said: I didn’t find anything about this piano when searching this forum. Sinhakken piano https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/sinhakken-only-white-no-black-keys/ It’s would be very difficult to know where middle C is. I've seen that one before. This is an instrument created just for the sake of "Why? because we can!" Functionality wise, the Jazzist in me is crying.. Quote Catch me on YouTube for 200 IQ piano covers, musical trivia quizzes, tutorials, reviews and other fun stuff... https://www.youtube.com/p1anoyc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old No7 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Oh my... I was expecting to see raised "black keys" but all in white -- and not a FLAT WHITE keyboard... WTF??? * Black keys matter * Old No7 3 Quote Yamaha MODX6 * Hammond SK Pro 73 * Roland Fantom-08 * Crumar Mojo Pedals * Mackie Thump 12As * Tascam DP-24SD * JBL 305 MkIIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Who has the disposable income to fritter away on tripe like this? Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Woodward Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 43 minutes ago, Threadslayer said: Who has the disposable income to fritter away on tripe like this? Indeed, I thought it might be a prototype or mock up, but its a full blown bloody grand piano ffs. Quote Korg Grandstage 73, Keystage 61, Mac Mini M1, Logic Pro X (Pigments, Korg Legacy Collection, Wavestate LE, Sylenth), iPad Pro 12.9 M2 (6th gen), iPad 9th gen, Scarlett 2i2, Presonus Eris E3.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DmitryKo Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Cool idea, a grand piano that can only play pieces in C major with no modulations... all ten of them. "Sinhakken All White. There is no place in life for C-minor mood!" "Sinhakken All White. The ultimate piano for beginners. Only the easy white keys!" "Sinhakken The White. You shall not pass, the Well-Tempered Clavier!" (var.: piano exam, jazz fusion, polka medley, etc.) "Sinhakken All White. Ask your dealer for a personal 10-year no-interest black key buyout plan." "Sinhakken All Black Flohwalzer edition. We finally got the Chopsticks right!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 47 minutes ago, DmitryKo said: Cool idea, a grand piano that can only play pieces in C major with no modulations... all ten of them. "Sinhakken All White. There is no place in life for C-minor mood!" "Sinhakken All White. The ultimate piano for beginners. Only the easy white keys!" "Sinhakken The White. You shall not pass, the Well-Tempered Clavier!" (var.: piano exam, jazz fusion, polka medley, etc.) "Sinhakken All White. Ask your dealer for a personal 10-year no-interest black key buyout plan." "Sinhakken All Black Flohwalzer edition. We finally got everything right!" Well, one could play in the relative minor to some extent - A minor should more or less work on an all white keys piano. G major should also work as long as one likes a dominant 7th note. That's 3 key signatures!!!! Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 From my extensive two minutes of googling, it's a regular piano with a custom keybed. I saw a mention somewhere that it's a Steinway with the "Sinhakken" label being a decal. So, all 88 notes are strung, only the black notes are removed and the white keys made uniform. In all likelyhood the original Steinway action is off camera somewhere and can be slid back into the piano. Still, pretty silly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DmitryKo Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 59 minutes ago, KuruPrionz said: A minor should more or less work on an all white keys piano. G major should also work as long as one likes a dominant 7th note Only the relatively rare natural A minor, but not the more common harmonic and melodic modes, and G major is limited to the Myxolidian mode. 52 minutes ago, Reezekeys said: the original Steinway action is off camera somewhere and can be slid back into the piano... Still, pretty silly Makes sense. Get a $150,000 Steinway piano, install custom white-only keys, and demo maybe five easy tunes like "Chopsticks" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and maybe other children's pieces. I'm pretty sure a lot of lawyers will be happy to buy this kind of dining room furniture at a hefty premium. I'm really worried for all the Flohwalzer players though - this piece is impossible to transpose into white-only keys, so there shoud be an all-black key edition of that piano! That should look double-silly too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I checked the date of the article to see if it was April 1. I wish it had been. Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Tatum Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I think Hans Groiner might like this - he'd be able to develop some interesting Thelonius Monk arrangements with it, I'm sure.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHarrell Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 That actually leads me to realize I don't know the historical reason for black keys on keyboard instruments. Was it always for the sake of ease as a performer, or were/are there mechanical reasons for it as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reezekeys Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I prefer to play all my pieces in F# pentatonic, not C major: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DmitryKo Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, CHarrell said: I don't know the historical reason for black keys on keyboard instruments You mean, historical reasons for white keys? 😁 PS. The seven long 'natural' keys are built around the seven notes of the C major scale, which wer the most used keys when temperaments were unequal; the remaining five short 'sharp' keys were secondary. There were also alternate designs where Bb and B each had their own iong key, so there were 8 long keys and 4 short keys; or enharmonic keyaboards with split key halves tuned to G# / Ab and D# / Eb, which used to be separate tones. The emerging 'pianoforte' / 'fortepiano' retained the standard 7-5 layout of the harpsichord, though twelve-tone equal temperament has no concept of 'primary' and 'secondary' tones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill5 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Up next, a guitar with only two strings 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Gehrig Charles Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 24 minutes ago, bill5 said: Up next, a guitar with only two strings 👍 TWO strings? What is the other string for? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 I know guitarists who would love this. "Listen to this - it's in a mode called E locrian. And it's in 7 beats: one, two, three, four, five, six, se-ven" Cheers, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHarrell Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Reezekeys said: I prefer to play all my pieces in F# pentatonic, not C major: Bbsus7 chords for days! Impress your friends, impress your neighbors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KuruPrionz Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, DmitryKo said: Only the relatively rare natural A minor, but not the more common harmonic and melodic modes, and G major is limited to the Myxolidian mode. True, but 3 keys is certainly better than 1, no? Also, one could play C - Am - F -G, classic chord formula for literally thousands of songs. That's about as far as I got with keyboards, guitar spoke to me and I flipped over to that. Quote It took a chunk of my life to get here and I am still not sure where "here" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 https://www.arturia.com/products/hybrid-synths/minilab-3-alpine-white/overview 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUSSIEKEYS Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 23 hours ago, Radagast said: It’s would be very difficult to know where middle C is. hah...Id like it to be harder and use all reverse key colours. So all white keys are black. just like on the rare Poly 800 reverse colour key I remember that coming out and being shocked at modern people using it onstage as i previously did with my Vox Jaguar. At least both had white flats/sharps as reference points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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