Generalized keyboards playbility

Hello
Does anybody has experience with playing a Bosanquet style generalized keyboard like the StarrLabs microzone?
Specifically , I wonder if traditional piano technique helps on playing these keyboards or is it like learning a new instrument.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Alexandros Papadopoulos
<Alexmoog@o...> wrote:
> Hello
> Does anybody has experience with playing a Bosanquet style
generalized
> keyboard like the StarrLabs microzone?

Yes, I have played a generalized keyboard (made for the Motorola
Scalatron) since 1975.

> Specifically , I wonder if traditional piano technique helps on
playing
> these keyboards or is it like learning a new instrument.

The technique is not very different from traditional piano or organ
technique, only that a generalized keyboard is much easier to learn,
since the fingering patterns are the same in all keys.

Since I have previously written about my experience with this
keyboard, I will refer you to these two messages:

/tuning/topicId_39323.html#39407
/tuning/topicId_39435.html#39448

In case you want to see the diagrams, I don't believe that the links
given in those message are valid any more. Their replacements are
given in this message:
/tuning/topicId_39833.html#39833
but you would have to be a member of the tuning-math group in order
to get to them.

You might also want to know about a more economical alternative to
the Microzone keyboard controller that it is hoped will be available
in the not-too-distant future. See:

/tuning/topicId_39589.html#39761
and
/tuning/topicId_39589.html#39763

--George