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A new instrument is something that you are going to be spending serious time with, perhaps more than you do with your girlfriend/boyfriend. So it's not a bad idea to check it out, to see if it will hold out for the years that it will be your close friend.
Also consider: there's a lot more expected in a modern instrument. A classical instrument really is just a few strings, some wood and some metal contrived to make a bit of sound.
A modern musical instrument does more; a lot more.
I very gently took apart my Dualo (not without a lot of trepidation) and took a peek.
There's really a lot in there; circuit boards for:
Impressive: five computer-design-aided multiple-layer PCB boards,. The complex circuitry looks clean, with indications that it is very much a work in progress; several revision numbers, and lots of test points for checking the various components are correctly functioning.
<< looks simple? au contraire!
Each of these represents a blink'n lot of work (with perhaps the exception of the display which they may have been able to source from stock{but probably didn't!}), a lot of money, and rarest of all, a lot of expertise in this most highly specialized field.
This is eyebrow-lifting: my opinion of the French investment/manufacturing industry has jumped. This seemingly casual group of people that developed the Dualo du-touch are not as they seem. This "modest" little device packs a lot of smarts, ingenuity and not a little state-of the art high-tech.
<< the shell that holds the many sensors
These guys have access to some serious expertise, more than a little money (!), and somehow have been able to avoid the many sneaky traps that ambush innovators like the inventors of the Axis-49 and the Thummer. I did not think the French innovation culture was as progressive as this; I'm pretty sure the Canadian culture would not permit projects like this to go forward.
Yes, each device should work just about forever, provided care is taken with the connectors (and these are cleverly placed in a protective alcove): these instruments have basically no moving parts (the bubble/membrane switches only move a tiny bit and are probably silicon-rubber).
Next we look at the other work needed to create the Dualo du-touch.
The late Carl Sagan once said "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" (link).
Well, creating an new instrument is not quite so complex, but there is still one heck of a lot to do. I'm sure the team that developed (and is still developing) this instrument must feel that they are indeed inventing the world.
Lets start with the outside of the Dualo, then in the following postings, take a glance inside and then look at the hidden work needed to create the du-touch.
The first thing I noticed was the well-designed box: this was not just a simple picture on cardboard, with a bunch of foam pellets for cushioning.
Everything was organized and neat, like opening an iPhone box on a larger scale.
Someone put this complex package together by hand, perhaps by a volunteer: I thank you, mon ami.
My serial number hints that this is the 24th output of the current assembly line.
I'm reminded of a gourmet meal, such a meal that doesn't just have to taste good, it also has to appear to be a work of art.
How soup is served in Vancouver these days ==>
So is this is the 21st-century reality for new instrument creation?
Does it not only have to sound good and play well?
Does it need gourmet packaging, even though this is irrelevant to function (and looked at only for perhaps 2 minutes), while the new owner uncovers his/her purchase.
I wonder how much this lovely package cost to design, and how many people it took. to create it.
So the Dualo developers apparently felt their instrument had to be designed and packaged to sell well in boutique stores.
What else does it need? Well it would be nice if it can work anywhere on the planet, regardless of the local electricity supply quirks.
This has become vastly easier with the emergence of the USB standard for devices. This is a wonder full innovation from our point of view, allowing a great increase in the number of easily available potential customers.
But you still have to pay the local authorities their economic rent : for example, the US Federal Communcations Commision requires the Dualo be certified (again) even though it was tested to identical standards for the EU. I suspect the FCC's primary motive is to collect its fees.
Daunting requirements, mounting expenses, and that's just the box the thing is delivered in.
Next we'll look at the inside of the Dualo.
My Christmas present arrived today, courtesy of my very understanding wife. It's a Dualo du-touch, made in Fr ance and invented by an group of young enthusiasts. Price: about $1000 and change in Canadian loonies. Duty and taxes added a bit over 20% to that.
Big caveat: anything I say about the Dualo people is impressions gathered by reading their websites and facebook postings and will not be 100% accurate.
This is the second round of Dualo production: the first, in August & September, was almost late-stage prototypes. This batch, I gather, is a much more stable product, although they are still getting up to speed on side issues like English manuals.
Now, to get to the central question that my many blog readers (all three of you) are asking: what gives; have you given up on the jammer keyboard?
By no means; I'm just starting to do well on the jammer (and more on that shortly). I bought a Dualo because it has many "must-have" features for any practical portable 21st-century instrument, and I need to see how they are implemented so I can the design the next-generation jammer. I am not disappointed, the Dualo has solid features.
My wife has her own motives. She wants me to have an instrument that is not tied to a computer, trains my ear, can be taken to parties, and does not lock me into a single instrumental view of music.
Here on the west coast of Canada, we are swamped by devices made in Asian countries. they tend to have a standard, shiny "plastic-y" look and feel. It's nice to have in my hands a device that has a nice heft and feel; the texture is that of high-quality rubber/powder material; it's not slippery.
The buttons are ... interesting ... They don't move like the keys of my Axis-49, instead they are rubbery and move by less than .5mm. Yet they have velocity sensitivity. My best guess is that they sense the shock-wave of the impacting finger, perhaps with tiny accelerometers? I'll reserve judgment pending some solid practice sessions.
The controls seem, at first touch, complicated but are starting to make sense. The reality of holding the instrument and actually getting an audible response from it is very vivid; much more "real" than expected.
However, now I know exactly now an old-time pianist feels when I show him my jammer keyboard and gush that it's bigger than the invention of the grand piano.
After months and months of playing music on the jammer, and learning its particular "layout of music" deeply in my fingers and brain, it's a heavy shock to encounter a different layout. My fingers are having tough time even playing "Mary had a little lamb", and my brain - not too strong at the best of times - is reeling.
I recently e-conversed, with Bruno, one of the co-inventors of the Dualo, and he floored me with:
Many many thanks for your email. I know your blog and your website, and you were one of the first we saw on internet when we started to build the company. That was for us a source of motivation as we though that this is a proof of the existence of a community (and a market) for new layout.
Well knock me over with a feather. I'm glad that I was of help in deciding to get the Dualo into production. :)
Does the layout of the traditional, "piano" keyboard strike you as weird?
Do you want an advantage over other musicians and look really cool?
I'm starting an Alternate Musical Instrument Special Interest Group (sounds cooler than "Club") in the Greater Vancouver area. Do you:
- really, hugely want to learn an instrument, but don't because the instrument looks arcane or you'll be compared to musicians that started years ago
- are non-keyboard musicians: especially guitar players and sax players that want to play a keyboard but don't because the keyboard is so bloody confusing
- are mediocre keyboardists that want a killer advantage: an instrument that is much faster to play and has many more musical possibilities than the traditional instrument
- are composers that want composition-boosting (instead of confusing) instruments
This is a truly great time in the development of musical instruments. New, intelligently designed ones are coming out; we now have the Daskin (a modernized piano), Dualo Du-touch, Terpstra, LinnStrument and jammer keyboards. All of these are designed to be both easy to learn, fast to play and train the ear accurately. This is not hard - traditional instruments are not designed for any of these things. All of the new instruments have uniform, consistent fingering, that is, if you learn to play a song in a given key, you can play it equally well in all keys, and modulations are easy. Each has unique features.
If these new instruments sound scary-hard to learn, there is now available teaching software that multiplies musical learning speed -and- it works particularly well on the new gadgets.
The group purpose: to check-out these new instruments, share ideas and experiences and hopefully gain extra proficiency in music.
If you are interested, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or drop a comment here.
In two months a pair of unique, innovative instruments will cease being sold.
This is the story of how they did not shake up the musical world, but should have.
A handful of years ago two special musical devices; the AXiS-64 and the AXiS-49 midi controllers came out. These keyboards use small, finger-tip sized keys arrayed-two-dimensionally. While a few simular expensive 2-dimensional keyboards were available from boutique manufacturers, the Axis line had several critical features; good velocity sensitivity, an affordable price and an easily learned (compared to the guitar and piano) interface. I checked out their innards and found a good solid design.
They are endorsed by a number of prominent musicians, notably Jordan Rudess, who praises especially their Harmonic-Table key layout. This layout gives the instruments these key properties:
Non-musicians think melody is the important part of music because melody is linked to words. Here's a secret that musicians absorb into their pores as they learn their craft (and don't talk about because it is so obvious to them, anymore than one would say "Yep, all music is founded on rythym."): all popular music is founded on progressions of chords, providing the foundation for the melody notes to dance on.
In other words, instruments incorporating the harmonic table are like exceptionally simple guitars; easy to get started on simple chords, easy to progress to funkier chords, and easy to compose on. This simplicity does not make them any less an instrument at all. Here's a couple of demos:
It's a nice little product line: a simple, affordable bare-bones instrument, the AXiS-49, for musicians to try out, and a fully-featured instrument, the AXiS-64 to progress to if one liked the '49. And if you really like the '64 you can order a unique, hand-crafted Opal version from luthier Peter Davies; I believe Brian May has one.
Now there is just one little hitch: "elegant simplicity" can be a hard new sell, especially online. Sometimes "old-but-works-eventually" or "cheap flash" can sell better, especially in hard times.
Unfortunately, development of the keyboards had taken longer than planned, and they came out precisely at the start of the Great Recession. The Axis' did not sell as well as expected.
Also, development had cost more than planned, leaving no reserve for firmware fine-tuning and advertising. Critically from my viewpoint, the AXiS-49 initially was not adaptable enough to fully use the instrument for other kinds of alternate-instrument, like the jammers I desperately wanted to make.
I and others worked with C-Thru and encouraged them to upgrade the AXiS-49's firmware in 2011, allowing the unit to be adapted into versatile alternate-keyboard instruments.
I love my jammer keyboards made from pairs of AXiS-49's. Serendipitously, our Axis-based jammers turned out were more powerful and versatile than ones I had tried to make by hand.
But unfortunately, C-Thru Music has struggled, and its "virtual storefront" will soon close. I asked Andrew Llewellyn and Jacqueline Kandalaft-Gomez, of C-Thru Music to give us some of their experiences and advice to post for posterity. Perhaps the next brave developer will benefit.
Ken Rushton
In 2007 C-Thru Music came out with their AXiS-64 MIDI controller, followed by the smaller AXiS-49 in early 2009. These controllers have velocity-sensitive keys arrayed in a 2-dimensional array.
Both Axis' keys were not large like the standard musical keyboard, almost exactly the size of a standard computer keyboard. By default the pitches on the keys were arranged in the innovative Harmonic Table layout, allowing one or two fingers to play most of the chords used in pop and jazz music.
Andrew Llewellyn (C-Thru Music) developed the AXiS-64 with Peter Davies, the inventor of the Harmonic Table. AXiS-64 technology (keys and rubber switches) was used to develop the smaller AXiS-49.
Peter Davies is a skilled luthier; building and repairing guitars. Andrew Llewellyn has a background as a sound recording engineer and co-producer, and plays the regular piano keyboard. Although not a musician, Jacqueline loves music and is the organizational glue who holds C-Thru Music together.
None has an investment background.
A point to note
Everybody at the time told us how important a patent was.
In hindsight it was a complete waste of money.
Q: What made you invest in this?
Initially, we loved the product once we'd made a decent prototype. Established musical instrument producers weren't interested and thought volumes would be too low.
We also knew that alternative MIDI controllers had a history of failing. We found that when people tried it both beginners and professionals loved it. We also knew that with notable exceptions amongst the pro's it isn't nearly as interesting off paper or a screen as it is when you touch an instrument for yourself and hear what it does. Our aim was to make the first instrument very hard wearing and high quality, and for sales to come primarily from word of mouth.
The rationale for investing in the '49 was different. At the price of the AXiS-64 we were not going to be able to hit a wider audience. Best advice at the time was we needed to hit a price point of $500 to do that. Using R&D from the '64 we could do that, and our market research pointed to our being able to make it into a workable little business.
Q: It is said creating any new personal-interaction device is a nail-bitingly hard, frustrating, Sisyphean process. Do you agree?
It really does seem like it much of the time. R&D is scientific, but there is an art to it. To keep costs down, we of course tried wherever possible to use off-the-shelf parts. The trouble was that so much needed to be custom made. In particular key shape and key travel were vital. Everyone is different, yet you must make the device useable by anyone. You have to manage time and money, and balance perfection with pragmatism.
It's like finishing an album or a painting. Should you just add that final overdub, or just touch up some final areas on the canvas? - when will you be ready to print the final mix-down or put the painting in a frame and sell it? At some point you have to go with what you have and take the plunge. Everything takes longer than you think when developing and producing a new product. Even when you think you have allowed extra time than you think something will take…. it always takes longer, there are always things that you can't possibly think of simply because you don't know For example, Chinese New Year - when they down tools for a week…. so if you had ordered plastic parts that are crucial to making your current batch of orders, instead you come to a grinding halt!
Q: Which gremlins in particular did you encounter in creating your instrument?
There were many gremlins in making our pitch bend and mod wheels. At the time there was no source for buying these off the shelf in small quantities.
We had to start from scratch and design our own. Getting the right-shaped and correct-strength springs involved much trial and error. Spring making is a black art. The other notable headache was the switches and how they contact the PCB. There are nanoseconds of bounce and the contacts can easily be ruined by dust and dirt if any gets on the board.
Q: Given hindsight, is there any way to avoid them?
I believe that these days one can buy pitch/mod wheels from stock - although I haven't looked. Ensuring quality carbon contacts on the rubber switches, and using gold-plate on the circuit board sorted out connection problems.
More important than particular gremlins is making sure you have good suppliers. If you have knowledgeable and helpful people on your team then you'll be able to get around problems as they arise.
Q: What did you do right?
My first answer would be that we concentrated on quality. We didn't need to produce an all-singing all-dancing product from day one, but we did want to make sure that what we produced worked and worked well, and was upgradable.
I think the key shape and travel worked out well. There are so many things that could have been a little different E.g. longer key travel makes for better velocity control but makes it much harder to glide between notes, and larger keys are better for larger hands. We put a lot of time into the key shape and how they work and I think we got a really good balance.
The second notable decision was to get Kevin Lamb to re-design the firmware for the '64. I can't praise Kevin highly enough. He has an encyclopedic musical knowledge and he used it to transform the capabilities of the AXiS-64. The latest version has been stable for ages and is light-years ahead of our original offering. The '64 is now an incredibly versatile tool.
Q: It looks like you miss-timed the market, and if your musical instrument had hit the market before the crisis you would have done well/better.
Re the timing for the AXiS-49. It couldn't have been worse. In the summer of 2008 we were putting final design touches to the AXiS-49 and thought it wise to do some pre-marketing. By late summer we had around 500 people who wanted a '49 at a price of $500.
We thought we could rely on a significant portion of these sales since we specified a price. So at that time it seemed quite reasonable to organize for a stock of 1,000 units. Buying less than a thousand would make them too expensive, and 2,000 would have been better for unit cost, but we thought we should be cautious. By the end of the year the so-called "credit crunch" hit, and we launched in January. We didn't imagine that of 500 people who wanted to buy at $500 only 30 would buy at launch time.
If we had launched earlier I think we would have done better initially, however products such as the '49 rely on a healthy middle class who have disposable income. This is exactly the sort of people who have been most affected by the current economic environment.
Also, from the time we did our market research and actually having product to sell, the $500 suddenly seemed too expensive, and people wanted to pay less - there were several other products designed by the big companies like Roland, Casio etc which had sounds, lights, colored keys etc for half the price of ours -if people were going to splash out a couple of hundred dollars, they were going to do it on something that had more functions and features to justify spending during the credit crunch.
Q: You did very little marketing, counting instead on word-of-mouth, click-of-mouse and influential musicians to get the word out. Would more marketing have helped?
Possibly, however budget was a major constraint. Marketing budget and further R&D had to come from sales.
As selling off the page has always seemed more difficult than from a live demo, we also looked at distribution through retailers. However this route to market has its additional costs and didn't prove viable either. Over the last year we've had 152,000 visits according to our web stats,
However we obviously don't sell well off the site as we are still (2014) selling from our original batch of 1,000 units. It may be that more marketing would have driven more people to our site, but this alone would not have made the difference on volume of sales. Perhaps better PR and seeing artists using the instrument front of stage would have helped, but front-of-stage is not necessarily the home of keyboards.
Although we're closing, we can be proud that we've ended up with so many very happy customers. People have so often written to let us know how great our products are - and after all, that's why we're in business (or would be).
It is also unfortunate that laws rules and regulations make it very difficult for micro companies to survive. There are so many costs associated with red tape especially related to government and banks, that small often isn't viable.
Just so that everybody knows, when we close C-Thru Music Limited we will keep the website going and retain sufficient parts and spares to be able to continue to guarantee all our products for the usual one year. Support ends 31st Jan 2016.
I have no association with Roger Linn, but I do feel that his intelligently designed instrument is going to shake up the musical world. It should allow for way greater expressiveness than a regular keyboard.
Roger says "A revolutionary expressive musical perfomance controller. In short, LinnStrument is an expressive alternative to the MIDI keyboard controller."
I'll keep you posted on reviews. Ken.
What can we expect in benefits from keyboard symmetry?
In the preceding posting Symmetry in motion – a crazy idea, I discuss the basic idea of playing symmetrical keyboards and the many advantages. Here I talk less theory and more actual results.
How does this work in actual practice?
Tests were needed. In the Piano Marvel course there is a bank of exercises labelled "Technique"; these are largely exercises (the other section, labelled "Method", has mostly songs to practice). This sounded perfect for testing symmetry. I experimented with learning the first level of courses, 100 exercises, with both hands, and different approaches.
The best way to learn seemed to be:
This approach, I found, gives a better workout to the less-proficient hand. My preferred hand then picked up the exercise quickly, so an extra 10 percent was usually needed to give the hand enough practice. Learning with both hands also seemed to solidify the learning; less skill seemed to be lost the next day. Done this way, two-hand practicing did not seem to be much more onerous.
Despite all the good things stated above, there are drawbacks.
Finger movements do not mesh well with the Traditional Music Notation
This is quite annoying at first: the left keyboard goes up to the left; the music goes up to the right. You do get used to it, but it does take a month or more, and if you stop practicing, you lose the knack.
It's really weird to have pitches ascend away from the body
After so many years of this invariant rule: pitch-goes-up-to-the-right, it's hard to think this new way and it's easy to switch back to old habits. This fades with time, but occasionally still trips one up.
30% more extra work is still 30% more extra work
Remember those hawkers at the local fair who will sell you a "Wonder Knife", and once you have decided to buy one, offer you a second one for "only 30% more!". The second knife is a good deal only if you need a second "Wonder Knife. It is likewise with learning a musical piece or exercise.
Unison and octave playing is easy, so it feels hard to learn two-handed harmony
This challenge is rather more subtle:
I found the jump from single-handed melody playing to two handed harmony to be the first real challenge. Not only did I have to learn to involve the other hand, but it was different notes, played by different fingers. My subconcious had come to expect symmetry, and to rely on concious attention.
Playing intervals |
Unison |
Not possible |
Easy |
Octave |
Initially difficult |
Easy |
3rds |
Hard |
Less Hard |
4 & |
Hard |
Less Hard - |
6 & |
Hard |
Hard |
The net effect is to make learning harmony and playing chords seem relatively hard, a sudden big challenge. The student has to practice until playing harmony across two hands is just as easy as playing unison, which will take months. Fortunately, once the skill is learned, because of the simpler key layout, it generalizes to many songs.
The symmetrical musical keyboard offers strong advantages over asymmetrical ones: half as many fingerings to learn; finger movements the same when the notes are the same, strong skill transfers from one hand to the next and collision-free playing. Symmetry does not make everything easier, however. When playing harmony notes over two hands, the student still has to learn to use differing fingers and hand positions. The beginner also has to read and interpret traditional music notation, and get used to pitches being placed in novel directions.
Bottom line
The jammer student still has to learn the fundamentals; learning a pattern with the first hand takes just as long, so it takes just as long to get started.
If the student elects to train the second hand it will add about a third to the initial learning time, but, in return the student will be able to pick up and play more songs in the long term.
Two symmetrical keyboards, one for each hand - an novel idea, but it works well
One of the strangest (initially) concepts of jammer keyboards is symmetry; the mirroring of motion between the two hands. This really made my eye-brows lift when I looked at Jim Plamondon's first demos of his two-keyboard Thummer.
And I'll bet that that nearly everyone has the same thought:
What a weird | interesting | bizarre | novel idea – wonder how it works out in practice?
Consider the standard music keyboard, which is profoundly asymmetrical. Seldom will the same fingers be used, and because the thumb has a different reach, the hand movement and location must vary as well. This is a huge amount to learn.
Can symmetry give alternate keyboard players any help?
After learning several hundred keyboard exercises on the symmetrical 2-keyboard jammer, I'm confident that this design has numerous advantages. In rough descending order of significance, these are:
Only one keyboard "fingering set" needs to be worked out and learned, a huge reduction from the two sets otherwise required, one for each hand, on non-symmetrical keyboards. (*1)
Keyboarding skills transfer between hands playing symmetrical keyboards. To be specific, note-playing and timing skills transfer. In other words, one hand automatically teaches the other what to do, to a significant degree. (*3)
Parallel Octaves are super easy. There are many occasions in music where the hands play the same notes, an octave or two apart. This is trivial to learn and easy to play on the two-keyboard jammer; nearly zero effort. Not so much on the traditional keyboard.
Fingers do not collide. It is easy to play close harmony and contrapuntal motion with two keyboards.
The same notes can be doubled, giving a unique, subtle richness to the resulting note. This cannot be done on the traditional keyboard.
[Note: this is not to say that there are no little surprises. In the following posting I'll talk about these and give tested tips.]
Which skills transfer?
Some simple experiments (*3) established that (for this writer at least) skill transfer between hands on the two-keyboard jammer is about 66%, in close agreement with the scientific literature (*2). (see notes at the end of this posting).
This applies to both the temporary skill one gains in an hour's practice and to long-term, hard-wired movements, the skill developed over weeks of practice
To a first approximation, keyboard skills transferred equally well both ways, from right to left and vice-versa, as some of the recent scientific literature reports.
Do any skills not transfer?
Not everything transfers. Key basic motor skills , e.g. pressing keys fast, precisely locating them, and moving between keys, must first be learned by each hand. Thus you don't get much of a boost at the beginning.
Why hasn't keyboard symmetry been tried before?
I think it's just chance. Of old, the major hand skill was hand-writing, which is inherently asymmetrical. Writing "dog" with the other hand requires different hand movements and timing, or else you get "qob". In other words, the other hand can't help the writing hand.
In many tasks, symmetry is either not useful or blindingly obvious and done automatically. Keyboards are a special case, and it took the insight of Jim Plamondon to figure this out.
Clumsiness transfers too ...
Interestingly, I found, especially at first, a distinct flavor of "clumsiness transfer" as well as "skill transfer". For example, if my right hand learned, the theme for "Chariots of Fire", then trying to play it with the left hand would be reasonably successful, but some notes would be missed.
Now here's something a bit interesting: when I went back to playing with the right hand, it then made the same mistakes the left hand had just made. In hindsight, this makes sense. Apparently "un-skills" could travel from the hand to hand just as easily as a skill could travel the other way.
To a psychologist, this would be a worthy research subject in its own right. However interesting this might be, this is an unwanted side effect. Fortunately, I found "clumsiness transfer" faded with time, with no conscious effort on my part; presumably my sub-conscious learned to transfer the preferred way.
Taking advantage of skill transfer to boost both hands to equal proficiency
Is one hand teaching the other really that useful? When would you ever play any song with the less proficient hand? Why learn to play a poorer version of say Hanon Exercises or Happy Birthday that you will never use?
Furthermore, it's also pretty boring to work yet more on a piece or an exercise that you (not to mention your housemates) are likely very, very tired of.
But consider the long term: the same snippets, the same note patterns will surely come up again and again. I suggest practicing with the less proficient hand patterns and songs that are generic. With modest additional effort, you can be ready to nail those patterns when they pop up under either hand.
The next posting adddresses how to use symmetry effectively.
Ken Rushton MusicScienceGuy
*1. I tested my keyboards using pitches ascending to the right, as on a piano. I found this arrangement was more than a pain; it was ugly; far harder to play and learn.
*2. Some interesting snippets from the science journals:
Stoeckel T, Weigelt M. Brain lateralisation and motor learning: Selective effects of dominant and non-dominant hand practice on the early acquisition of throwing skills. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. 2011;17(1):18–37.
Key Quote: "Participants initially practising with their dominant hand benefited more from practice than participants beginning with their non-dominant hand. These results indicate that spatial accuracy tasks are learned better after initial practice with the non-dominant hand, whereas initial practice with the dominant hand is more efficient for maximum force production tasks."
Matias Edgar, MacKenzie I. Scott, William Buxton Half-QWERTY: a one-handed keyboard facilitating skill transfer from QWERTY. CHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERACT '93 and CHI '93 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1993, pp 88-94
"During the evaluation of a one-handed chord keyboard, Rochester, Bequaert, and Sharp [17] trained one student using the right hand only. The subject was later retrained to type with the left hand only. The subject 'reached close to his right-hand typing speed in less than one third the time he spent learning right-handed typing'"
Teixeira L, Timing and Force Components in Bilateral Transfer of Learning. Brain and Cognition 44, 455–469 (2000) doi:10.1006/brcg.1999.1205, http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/savedLiterature/Teixeira2000BrainAndCognition44p.455-469.pdf
"… bilateral transfer of learning took place for both anticipatory timing and force control, with more noticeable transfer of training for the former."
3. Some simple experiments
If I learned to play an exercise in the program Piano Marvel to 100% accuracy with my right (preferred) hand (from less than 25% accuracy with either hand), the left hand could then play 60-70% of the notes correctly at the same speed.
The left hand then was able to get to 100% accuracy in about 1/3 the time. For example, when training the right hand took three hours, then training the left hand to the same speed and accuracy took only about an hour.
Curiously, this training of the left hand further improved the right hand. After teaching the left hand to play the excercise at 100 beats per minute, the right hand could play up to 110 beats per minute.
Review: Musiah Virtual Piano Teacher - Monthly USD $24.99
Musiah is a très cool music learning application. It acts like a simulated virtual music teacher combined with a "video game" style approach to learning play a music keyboard. It largely succeeds. With a few enhancements (planned for July) it should be even better.
For younger learners and some adults, Musiah is an excellent way to learn to play a keyboard, and may even completely replace the traditional beginning music teacher. I don't doubt that most students progress with this program faster than with a traditional teacher.
Personally, although I highly regard Musiah, I've elected to not renew my subscription and instead will use Piano Marvel. For some adult learners and especially an alternate keyboard player such as myself, I believe the latter has the edge - at the moment: both plan improvements in the near future.
If you are interested, there's a two week free trial. Unusually, up to 6 family members can use the same license.
Update: This review has been "peer reviewed" by the authors of the programs mentioned.
The opinions given herein are still all mine, but I've corrected errrors, adjusted phrasing and changed opinions where it seemed appropriate.
Musiah appears much like a standard video game, but one with an interesting premise: you, a human, can save the galaxy from the invading Atonals, by learning to play the perfect musical weapon to defeat them.
Visually Musiah is a treat, it has a nice, smooth flow to the visuals and the colours are great; some serious work has gone in here.
I liked the simulated classroom and especially loved the teacher, he was just so like a nice music teacher, including cute, expressive twitches (suppressed swearing?) when his student, to wit: you - makes a truly big mistake.
The concept of being in a classroom, with friendly, supportive classmates who play along with you, is excellent and invokes practice-encouraging group instincts. Now, as far along as I got they were just background; I'd love it if later versions of the game have classmates giving a occasional bits of encouragement to the student.
The game is darned good at egging the gamer on to the next level, and it is obviously crafted by a master music educator. You just do not get all of this from a small shop in a couple of years. Regardless, this game uses the latest operating system and needs a late model Mac or PC.
The program has 13 levels, with about 10-12 music lessons per stage (plus a final finale level); about 130 lessons in all, claimed to be about the equivalent of "5-6 years of standard lessons". To pass each lesson requires pretty deep, concentrated attention, the exact kind of "deep practice" that works well.
The lessons are very good. My wife, a qualified music teacher in her own right, praises the arrangements, saying they are just what I need to learn.
The lessons start right in on 2-handed practice and give the left-hand a serious workout and involve training timing as well.
The difficulty ramps up rapidly; by the 5th lesson, entitled "Mary Had a Leg of Lamb" (perhaps a droll joke; the teacher is a plump, albeit civilized, Allosaurus) we were into harmony - parallel sixths; melody with the right hand, a major or minor 6th lower with the left.
((Tip to jammer players: visualize it as down an octave and up a third.))
Here's the first limitation: due to the video-game style presentation, the lessons are single-threaded, the student can tackle just one challenge at a time. This is good because the student must apply full attention to learning the one piece. Unfortunately, the student can get stuck, especially if using an alternative musical instrument.
Now, Musiah's author, Brendan Hogan, is adamant that the design of every note is planned to avoid bottlenecks: "[traditional] keyboard students do not get stuck in those places". He's the expert, but I suspect that even traditional keyboard students will hit lessons where they progress pretty slowly, given the pretty intense ramping up of rhythm and notes in the lessons. On the plus side, if one does not drop out, the student will learn at an intense pace.
Another limitation: the program has a really limited range of slow practice options. I got stuck in several lessons, and could not slow play down to the point where I could easily master the notes and then crank up the speed a few percent each time, as in other software. Instead, I had to practice the pieces "offline"; reading the score and just playing the notes.
Naturally, the arranger has chosen and designed songs that are easy to finger on the piano, with parallel harmonies that sound very nice. Inevitably, some of these are harder to do on the jammer, sonome, C-system accordion, or Dualo.
Let's look at a pretty standard example, suppose the arranger adds a parallel 6th below the melody. On the piano's white keys, in the key of C, the extra key to play is white, always two keys below the upper note; easy to play right? Whereas on the jammer, the relative position of that parallel note shifts between a minor 6th and a major 6th, depending on the position in the scale. It's significantly harder to learn at first, although I've devised some simple exercises to help learn the pattern.
With Rock Band and Piano Marvel, the solution to an too-tough exercise is first: give it a good try (this gets the brain thinking about it), then come back to it after a bit of time has passed. With Musiah the combination of exercises that are harder than the designer expected and one-and-only-one challenge at a time makes the program less suitable for alternate musical instruments.
Musiah has less lessons than Piano Marvel (PM) but makes up for it, in some ways, by being fussier; especially it checks note duration. PM does not, and the lack does make one more than a bit sloppy. I do wish PM had a duration checking option, along with an option to tighten up the note-start checking as well.
PM needs a section-looping option; it would be just great to be able to repeat a selected passage until it's perfectly mastered. Musiah needs a better looping option; it only loops some selected sections and only twice. It needs the option to repeat any section up to, say 9 times.
For myself, while I found the story line charming, I found that Musiah's attempts to provide "tuition": to carefully "correct and teach"; actually got in the way of learning. I could get way more keyboard practice sessions using PM.
These products work in different ways, Piano Marvel is designed to help a teacher give lessons and act as an assistant in teaching and monitoring the student, or help the self-directed student practice deeply and steadily. Musiah is an software-embodied Brendan Hogan.
The ideal in Piano Marvel is to get as many "gold piano" (every exercise nearly perfect; an B+ average) trophies as possible, which is a high goal. This is actually very similar to the goal system in Musiah, which allows you to pass an given exercise with an initial C+ grade, but then only passes the student to the next level after the student has gone back and brought the average of the 10-12 lessons to a B+ level. Very sneaky!
Musiah, especially if given the minor changes suggested above, can pretty much replace the basic, first five-to-six years of lessons, music teacher. It has literally infinite patience, and engaging story line, clear goals and feedback. Since the player generally would spend much more time in "deep practice" than is possible with a teacher, the learning speed will be correspondingly higher.
In fact, my concern is that Musiah could undercut the beginning music teacher, to the possible long-term detriment of the student. Studies (see Daniel Coyle's The Talent code: Greatness isn't Born. Its Grown. Here's How. See: chapter 9, the Coaching Love section) have made it clear how important the teacher is. Every single significant musical talent in the world had a special beginning music teacher, a teacher (or parent) that inspired, ignited, their student with a love of music and showed them how to learn and to feel pride in learning. Now with Musiah we are conducting an experiment: can software kindle musical talent?
Maybe it can: perhaps these programs can get music students quickly past the tedious levels of skill development, to the point where the student can really begin to have fun with music and ready to be ignited by a teacher. One can hope.
The price is high-ish but reasonable; the program has many thousands of hours of development invested in it, and the musical foundation it builds on is solid.
Unfortunately, I suspect that the game design will preclude teens from playing Musiah; most teens avoid child-ish seeming games. I'll bet that the program's writers will eventually split the appearance into two or three versions, adding an teen version, and perhaps an adult version for "mature students" who need to know the basics.
Musiah is not the ideal tool for the adult learner who already knows music, the rival product Piano Marvel has better features for the dedicated adult, such as the "space-bar" triggered practice session, practice-time count, and a huge repertoire. For this reviewer, who can read a score well and knows music theory, PM allows significantly more practice.
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We live in exciting times musically, with programs that greatly assist learning and new alternate keyboards that speed learning and allow versatile play.
When Musiah's new version comes out, I'll eagerly review it.
Ken Rushton
Big news – no problems have been found in playing the jammer (yet).
This is a weird kind of headline, isn't it? Yet it's important, nay crucial.
You all probably been wondering what I've been up to, with these many months of "practicing". I do profess to wonder myself; after all these months you'd think there would be something great to show, right?
There is, but it's kind of subtle: I have been able to play a large range of songs "successfully" (with a few small exceptions). "Successfully" means that the computer courses I've used have passed me; my wife says I sound like a young piano student :) .
This is a fun, interesting new instrument and since there's no race on and my time was limited, the rule was: far better to be safe and careful. If I mess up everyone might conclude the poor instrument is at fault, and not the ham-fisted student. And there's a remote chance of something worse yet: I could succeed, but do such a hack job of design that people curse my design decisions and mistakes for a long time. So I am taking care, working from the bottom up, and not focusing on shiny show pieces.
Besides just reading scores, I have used several "learn piano" courses: eMedia's Piano and Keyboard Method (kind of staid); then Rock Band 3 (great fun, but with definite limitations), Brendan Hogan's Musiah (pretty good for kids) and my current favorite, Arron Garner's PianoMarvel. This last one is excellent, and allows one to spend a large part of one's practice time in "deep practice", learning at the optimum rate.
So we have very good courseware, and the dual-keyboard jammer appears, on the surface, to be an excellent instrument. Now how do we test the blink'n thing and prove it?
I'm the geeky developer, I'm not competent to create a test suite (how the heck would I know what is easy and what is hard, what the key starting concepts are?), but the authors of Musiah and PianoMarvel certainly are. And PianoMarvel has keyboard exercises in spades.
So take a look at this screenshot from my current Piano Marvel session . Each one of those trophy symbols represents twenty completed keyboard exercises.
The trophies indicate the lowest score in the exercise set. The gold piano trophy indicates that all 20 of the exercises / songs have been done, at least once, nearly perfectly. The single note and the smilely-face trophies signify that at there is at least one exercise with a score of 80-89% and 90-95% respectively. I'm currently working on level 3C, and will go back to bring all the exercises on level 2 up to perfect later (generally there is only one not-perfect hold-out in each set). From past experience I expect the learning being done on level 3 will allow me to do them easily.
Here's what set 3C looks like currently. You can see that I'm still challenged by the chromatic intervals (jumping to Gb and Eb) in Heart & Soul.
And here is the screen-shot for the technical exercises:
These technical exercises were done twice, once with each hand, as part of research into the value of symmetrical keyboards (the results will be posted shortly).
The results are totally boring: all together about 500 entry-level songs & exercises have been playable*. There are no songs that could not be played.
There are some exercises, like Chopsticks, Heart & Soul and the trick piece Peter-Peter that are harder to play on the jammer than on the piano, but that's life. This is balanced out by many things that are way easier to play.
* Exceptions are: you just can't do a C-Major glissando (but you can do other, new kinds) and the fingering of a harmonic minor song is more stretchy than I had hoped. There may be a problem with complex pieces that require one to hold a note with one finger and play others with the other fingers; we may need to bring the thumb into play for these.
This is the most fun part: hitting the unexpected. I played these many pieces, gradually getting better, under the assumption that they would gradually become automatic. It didn't exactly happen.
Playing still invariably required conscious control: as soon as a distraction like playing a chord with the other hand was added, or talking to someone, then my fingers acted like a bunch of students when the teacher was out of the room. Something, some crucial step was missing from my practice, and it's even missing from the learned books on the subject of talent development. I hope to discuss this in a later post. :)
The level 3 courses are all about simple 2-handed play: melody with the right hand, chords and rhythm with the left. I'm keen to complete the whole of level 3 because the skill acquired should enable me to read a fake sheet and play it at sight. Then I can join some friends in weekly jam sessions - yahoo!
I'm hoping that the next levels will get progressively easier; as the lessons shift to other keys and more complex chords. Tthe Rock Band songs were in all sorts of keys, so that aspect is tested.
So far PianoMarvel has mostly stuck to C, F and G. This will be the next critical test: the piano is designed to play songs in C. What happens when we switch keys? Will this slightly-mad jammer player find his long sought learning and playing advantage?


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Jan 28, 2012, 10:19 AM | |
hey, Steve, I had one of those, I took the electronics out of one of those HH indoor P-51's and converted it to R/C, you have to remove the steel ball in the nose, there is a thread in the slope forums to make it a twisty wing plane as well, I think under FOX. blast to fly, lost it on the slopes one day
Al |
Jan 28, 2012, 10:23 AM | |
Yah, Geode would have fit right in here as he was all about building with wood. His Manta design was an all wood DLG, except for the boom, he even designed a balsa pod for it. The Bumble Bee came in two sizes 34" and 60" and are remarkably strong. Somewhere there is a picture of him holding the bigger Bumblebee out horizontally by the wingtip. He just disappeared from RCG one day never to be heard from again.
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Jan 28, 2012, 01:26 PM | |
That's really sad, because I would have had an advantage, and could have chatted at the slope, field, over lunch.... Ah, well. Wherever he's at, hope he's well.
I have a sailing friend that was once active on RCG, then also kinda quit. His moniker is wottapilot. I found him here, but he's long since quit answering PMs. Nahh, if I want to get a hold of Harry, I'd just ring him up, or meet him at the ramp. Anyways, I'm pretty sure, now, that It's a Manta that's going on one of the booms. Bug on the other, but the other boom needs a bot of work to fix it. ETA: Thanks, Don, and Night Owl! |
Jan 28, 2012, 02:44 PM | |
Katie, those articles will help with the overall numbers, but will not answer all of your questions for you. In particular, they will not directly answer questions about what tail area to use, or what tail boom length, they will just tell you how much you can reduce one if you increase the other.
You have to use other criteria to find the complete answer: On a 2-channel glider, you might want a tail moment based on what gives you enough "top rudder" effect (due to cuurvature of the airflow) to get enough extra angle of attack on the inside wing tip to counteract overbanking tendency in a typical thermal turn. Joe and I have actually gone so far as building a test model with an adjustable-length tail boom to determine this with flight tests. On a pylon racer, where there is a "scale appearance" requirement, such as the Quarter-40 class, you might be more concerned with minimizing drag. In a case like that, I've worked out an equation for whetted area of the tail cone, plugged that into my spread sheet along with specifying a set of tail volume coefficients, then played with the tail moment arm length to find the combination of tail moment and corresponding tail area that resulted in the lowest possible total whetted area for the tail surfaces plus the tail cone. You can do something similar to find the proportions for the lowest possible tail assembly weight. If you set both the static and dynamic tail volume coefficients as specified input parameters, you will find that there is only one combination of tail area and tail moment arm that can simultaneously satisfy specific values of both of those. This can be a very good approach if you already have an example of a plane whose behavior you want to emulate with your new design. Calculate the static and dynamic coefficients for the plane you like, then find the tail moment and areas that give the same results for your new model. Or, you can just use TLAR and hope you get "lucky". Not a consistent, reliable way to design airplanes. |
Jan 28, 2012, 02:57 PM | |
Discovery for reducing CA irritation
I've stumbled upon something that might be useful to others. If this is old news let me know. CA glue used to be no problem for me, but in the last few years I have had to be really careful to not breathe the fumes. It doesn't take much to give me a sore throat and even a tendency for bloody noses. I can't use it much at all in the basement, especially during the winter when ventilation is minimal. What's new to me is an idea for keeping the fumes out of my sinuses and throat. I thought about how moisture in the wood activates the chemical reaction to make it cure, so it follows that moist membranes are affected when we breathe in the CA. The solution for me has been to use a plain old dust mask, but dampened. The fumes have to pass through the wet filter before they get to me, and the irritation level is reduced by 90%. I still feel a little burn in my eyes, but the only lasting effect is a little goop in the corners of my eyes. I hope this can help others. Tim onewinch.com |
Jan 28, 2012, 03:50 PM | |
Hi Tim
If you are getting bloody nose's from the ca , you are way overdue to stop using it. When you body goes over the edge to being a MCS guy you will be in big trouble then, i know as it happened to me and ruined my life. Through that CA away and use white glue, just a word of warning !!! G Don |
Jan 28, 2012, 04:10 PM | |
excel spread sheets for sailplane design
Here are Excel spread sheets which can be used to figure out how big to make things:
http://tailwindgliders.com/Files.html#Files Have fun plugging numbers in! Scott |
Jan 28, 2012, 05:43 PM | |
Wow guys, you must be using a hell of a lot of CA or using it in a really confined area. You gotta have ventilation with that stuff, even a small desk fan blowing over the work area would be enough.
Personally I love CA and its stood up well in my 32" Kombat Kid, which has seen a number of crashes and come out with no real airframe damage bar the motor/battery housing. Cheers - boingk |
Jan 28, 2012, 06:54 PM | |
I won't get on my soapbox about CA vs wood glue but I use wood glue or WBPU 99% of the time now. As for the wait time, most of the newer wood glues out there set pretty fast, especially if you're building larger parts with multiple pieces. Like all glue, barely enough is plenty and more than enough will severely slow down the set time. I just don't use CA anymore except for temporary tacking or special projects.
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Published: December 3,2010
SBA's Web Chat to Focus on Year-End Tax Planning for Small Business Owners
Thursday, December 9, 2010, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., CT
WASHINGTON – It is not too late for business owners to reduce their 2010 tax bills and plan ahead for 2011. The U.S. Small Business Administration's December web chat will focus on tax preparation for small business owners. Participants can get useful year-end tax tips and information, and learn more about tax deductions and credits that can help to reduce their taxes.
WHO: Edward S. Karl, vice president of Taxation for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), will host the December web chat on "Year-end Tax Essentials for Small Business Owners." Chat participants can get valuable information on how to prepare now with useful tax savings tips and mistakes to avoid. Karl will answer questions on how to get the most out of year-end tax planning.
WHAT: SBA's web chat series provides small business owners with an opportunity to discuss relevant business issues online with experts, industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs. Chat participants have direct, real-time access to the web chats via questions they submit online in advance, and during the live session.
WHEN: December 9, 2010, at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) CT
Karl will answer questions for one hour.
HOW: Participants can join the live web chat by going online to www.sba.gov <http://www.sba.gov/> , and clicking "Online Business Chat." Web chat participants may also post questions before the December 9th chat by visiting http://web.sba.gov/livemeeting/chat.
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Sebelius: Obamacare sign-up glitches a 'great problem to have'
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Glitch-fest 2013 got under way this morning.
According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius it was a positive sign of things to come:
ANDREA MITCHELL: […] And [the president said] "there have been glitches but Apple has glitches." What is your response to the Republicans and other critics that say it's not going to work and there are too many problems and it needs to be fixed, delayed until it's fixed?
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Is "it's a great problem to have" going to be her answer to people who will end up waiting forever to see a doctor?
Here's the ridiculous Apple comparison from Obama's address today:
And we're going to be speeding things up in the next few hours to handle all of this demand that exceeds anything that we had expected. Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it. I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn't. That's not how we do things in America. We don't actively root for failure. We get to work, we make things happen, we make them better, we keep going.
If the Obama administration helped start Apple they would have gone bankrupt before getting out of Steve Jobs' garage, blamed his parents for the failure and then lobbied the Carter administration to make the purchase of malfunctioning computers the size of Buick LeSabres mandatory.
Also, there's this excellent but brief explanation: Three reasons Obamacare is not Apple.
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