RE: New Post from Brian

>36 - 6 = 29

Brian's math skills, impeccable as usual.

I don't know how playable the 1796 31-tone instrument really was, but
Fokker's keyboard certainly solves the problem of making a 31-tone keyboard
as playable, nay, more playable, than the standard 12-tone keyboard, while
retaining familiar fingering patterns for diatonic scales. Everyone should
have one of these keyboards, yet I don't think a single one exists outside
the Netherlands. What a backwards world we live in.


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