First generalized hexagonal keyboard?

Although I independently conceived of a hexagonal keyboard layout
concept ca. 1990,
I of course was preceded by others, as I've learned since then.

For some time I have presumed that the first hexagonal generalized
keyboard layout was developed in the 1960s by
Erv Wilson of Los Angeles, whose important contributions to tuning
theory are well-known to most of us on this list.
Of course, many of his articles are now available in PDF thanks to
Kraig Grady at http://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html

However, I stumbled on a very interesting entry in Wikipedia by Clark
Panaccione:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Luedtke

Apparently Luedtke conceived of a hexagonal generalized organ by
1924, as shown by the patent on the page.
But it is not clear from the article whether Luedtke built an organ
with such a keyboard from this design, unless
the Oskalyd op. 2113 mentioned in the article is such an instrument
(my German is too miniscule to understand the content of the linked
articles)

I have not seen discussion of Luedtke on this list, even after
searching back 20,000 messages.

So is it reasonable to presume that Luedtke developed the first
generalized hexagonal keyboard?
And did he ever build such an instrument? If so, where is it? Is it
in working condition?
And does Wilson know about this?

Looking forward to further details,
Harold

Thanks for Posting this . odd that he would slant the hexagons in a very unoptimum way( fingers cover more surface area vertically than sideways. It appears though that the slant is quite extreme running upward also, like Fokker and i guess Jenko
i do not think Erv saw this though
From: "harold_fortuin" <har

Although I independently conceived of a hexagonal keyboard layout concept ca. 1990, I of course was preceded by others, as I've learned since then. For some time I have presumed that the first hexagonal generalized keyboard layout was developed in the 1960s by
Erv Wilson of Los Angeles, whose important contributions to tuning theory are well-known to most of us on this list.
Of course, many of his articles are now available in PDF thanks to Kraig Grady at http://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html

However, I stumbled on a very interesting entry in Wikipedia by Clark Panaccione:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Luedtke

Apparently Luedtke conceived of a hexagonal generalized organ by 1924, as shown by the patent on the page.
But it is not clear from the article whether Luedtke built an organ with such a keyboard from this design, unless
the Oskalyd op. 2113 mentioned in the article is such an instrument (my German is too miniscule to understand the content of the linked articles)

I have not seen discussion of Luedtke on this list, even after searching back 20,000 messages. So is it reasonable to presume that Luedtke developed the first generalized hexagonal keyboard?
And did he ever build such an instrument? If so, where is it? Is it in working condition?
And does Wilson know about this?

Looking forward to further details,
Harold

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Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
The Wandering Medicine Show
KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles

I printed out the article & mailed it to Erv a few days ago.

Happy Sunny New Year,
Harold

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
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> Thanks for Posting this . odd that he would slant the hexagons in a
very unoptimum way( fingers cover more surface area vertically than
sideways. It appears though that the slant is quite extreme running
upward also, like Fokker and i guess Jenko
> i do not think Erv saw this though
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> From: "harold_fortuin" <har
>
> Although I independently conceived of a hexagonal keyboard layout
> concept ca. 1990,
> I of course was preceded by others, as I've learned since then.
>
> For some time I have presumed that the first hexagonal generalized
> keyboard layout was developed in the 1960s by
> Erv Wilson of Los Angeles, whose important contributions to tuning
> theory are well-known to most of us on this list.
> Of course, many of his articles are now available in PDF thanks to
> Kraig Grady at http://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html
>
> However, I stumbled on a very interesting entry in Wikipedia by Clark
> Panaccione:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Luedtke
>
> Apparently Luedtke conceived of a hexagonal generalized organ by
> 1924, as shown by the patent on the page.
> But it is not clear from the article whether Luedtke built an organ
> with such a keyboard from this design, unless
> the Oskalyd op. 2113 mentioned in the article is such an instrument
> (my German is too miniscule to understand the content of the linked
> articles)
>
> I have not seen discussion of Luedtke on this list, even after
> searching back 20,000 messages.
>
> So is it reasonable to presume that Luedtke developed the first
> generalized hexagonal keyboard?
> And did he ever build such an instrument? If so, where is it? Is it
> in working condition?
> And does Wilson know about this?
>
> Looking forward to further details,
> Harold
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> --
> Kraig Grady
> North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>
> The Wandering Medicine Show
> KXLU <http://www.kxlu.com/main.html> 88.9 FM Wed 8-9 pm Los Angeles
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