There are a few options like Chromatone, Lippens and some people uploading 3D printing projects for free use. Also some other forms of DIY. But I too hope it becomes more mainstream!
you did not know about this, because neither your parents or your teachers value your lifetime enough, which is limited. Everybody wants to believe that things are good, but they aren´t. Efficiency in education is the project Nr.1 if you are interested in the common good. The elites and rich rulers of this world are interested in stupidity for the majority of people and not in a much easier availability for education, knowledge and culture.
Careful ! At the moment, there are cheaply built (although with greedy expensive prizes) constructions on the market, which seem to work, but only for a limited time and for rare usage. One main reason, why janko pianos are rare, is, that piano builders make cheap under levers which are not made with respect for human life and with ignorance to the fatal experiences pianists of the past made with badly cheap built janko pianos. The book: "das janko clavier in seiner vollkommenen Ausführung" (=the janko-piano beeing built in its perfect kind of construction) of Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes, the president of the janko association and friend of janko, says it all. There is a good historic comparison, I want to make: The boehm system for flutes, invented 50 years before janko´s genius ideas, succeeded despite the flute-builders who wanted to continue their lazy constructions, which are cheap for the instrument makers , but expensive for children who pay with their lifetimes. But the invention of Theobald Böhm succeeded finally, and today, despite especially german stubbornness, the flutes are built like Böhm advised for the benefit of all, even to the benefit of the flute builders, because nowadays the flute is so successful in statistics about music schools, thanks to böhm, but the flute builders have their jobs also because of böhm. In the case of the Janko-piano, instrument makers succeeded to prevent the deserved fame of baron paul of janko, who gave his lifetime for efficiency in education, which is the most beneficial work a human being can do. Now for nearly one and a half century, children had to pay for the laziness and greed of the piano-builders who wanted to build "fast cars" (=janko pianos) with "wooden wheels" (=wooden under-levers) so to speak, because they were used to it and they were and are stupid and irresponsible. What happened? The cars, who could now drive 240km per hour crashed without the appropriate kind of constructions (=rubber-wheels). I speak metaphorically to make this totally clear: the press and jankopianists of the past were absolutely enthusiastic about the jankosystem, they played with joy 14 hours a day and more, which led to the problems which occur, if you build a car with wooden wheels, just because the carriages with horses had wooden wheels and the carriage builders were used to their kind of construction. After a short period of successful concerts and constant joyful playing, the levers started to get cracks or to be more and more uncontrollable, because of the friction among other nasty things on all parts, that occurred, if the janko piano was built with disrespect to human life. So , be careful, all of you, who want to get a janko acoustic piano. The janko keyboard has only 89cm of space, but the piano-harp needs 123cms. The levers have to answer to that in a way, that doesn´t cause friction and constant maintenance-costs for the benefit of irresponsible piano-builder-cheats but the disadvantage of musicians. The solution: the levers of Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes connected with the upper levers of Carl Pfeiffer. It´s possible and not as expensive as piano-builders claim (because they want to frighten pianists just because straight cheap under-levers are easy to build and mean less and cheap investments of time and material for the builder, but a catastrophy for the pianist, who has to buy a new janko piano every 2 years, if he plays on it all day long for 2 years, which always happens after only a short period of owning a janko piano, because soon you will notice, that everything flows and becomes easy and music making becomes the fun that it actually is and stops being the torture of the 1000year old keyboard-system of normal pianos, which was made for another kind of music, than we have today).
The pfeiffer company still excists and the bluethner company could build a janko piano as well, but you have to be absolutely clear about the levers that are needed: Carl Pfeiffer`s upper levers (they make it possible to have the same touch on each part of each key) connected with a Boyes (Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes=president of the janko piano association, which existed in vienna until 1965, a long time after Boyes was dead) under lever construction (the Boyes under levers prevent costs after 2 years of joy on the jankosystem because it prevents friction among other things). You should NOT COMPROMISE !! Don´t let them talk you into any other kind of cheaper construction !! YOU would have to pay for the consequences and not the piano-makers! Have respect for the costly experiences other pianists made with cheap janko-constructions which were not accordingly built to janko´s or Boyes´ wishes. I lost my life, because my investments in a janko piano and in my institute for efficiency in education and a car with a trailer could not be compensated by concerts, because the piano builder ingnored the contract, so I had to do reparations on the institutes roof for myself and injured my thumbs and lost the ability to prepare for concerts all day. On a janko piano, I could (if I could practice on a janko) use my thumbs on lower rows as well, giving the thumbs a better angle. The "piano-builder" is fine, though ! He offers his "janko-piano" to others , despite the things, specialists found out about it during fights and legal procedures for many years. Thanks to the german justice system which made it possible, that I had to fight for 10 years to get something back from the connected piano "builder" with all his public relationships, and got nothing back for the damages on my life and my project for efficiency in education (the most beneficial man-made project ever). But I never got a well constructed janko piano like the contract said, which could stand 15 hours of playing each day. On videos of janko pianos, watch carefully, if they are cut and looped. If so, you should use your brain. Best wishes for everybody, who supports efficiency in education and this curse for all cheaters and greedy hustlers and corrupt lawers.
@@mikejett8378 No but I can give you important advice in general: Insist on warranty, pianos are not tested for durability like bicycles or tools, so you are the mouse for the test ! Look carefully inside the mechanics and on the materials. Soft wood for example will cause a lot of trouble . Take lots of witnesses into any shop and insist on written descriptions. Be careful, if you want to play longer than those few moments one plays when testing any piano ! Think whether it is possible for you or friends of yours to build jankokeys in any piano you might already have, especially, since you get very good used pianos for little money nowadays.
If you want to learn more about Jankó you can watch some of the short films we did during our stay in the museum. You can watch them on my channel "Explaining Janko" ruclips.net/video/cb67ykXJc8o/видео.html
Yes, I don´t have a Jankopiano, only shortly before this video, I got an akkordeon with a button system in only 4 rows, but somewhat jankolike. But I thought a lot about the janko system and played it in my fantasyrooms. Now I bought a chromatone keyboard, which is not a jankosize instrument with proper long keys, but at least it has 6 rows in janko systematic, but also like a button akkordeon in key size. If there were a functioning justice system in Germany, I would have gotten a jankopiano, but this didn´t happen because I payed in advance, which is always not recommendable. But otherwise the "pianobuilder" of the Sauter company wouldn´t start.
@@paulvonjankozuehren5037 Sorry to hear that! Only now I read your answer while revisiting this video. Somehow I missed the notification. I got a wholetone revolution myself, which unfortunately stopped working in november and I couldn't yet find a way to fix it. But I'm no pianist, so I was learning the basics when it died. But I'm still curious about who you are, about your career as a regular pianist and how you came to know the Jankó system!
@@paulvonjankozuehren5037 I'm actually writing my term paper for my graduation about isomorphic keyboard instruments with a focus on jankó and chromatone. There's already a thesis from 1977 by Kristine Kay Naragon, so I'm not going deep into the Jankó history, although I couldn't get my hands on that thesis since there's no online version and I'm in Brazil. My focus is for info regarding modern instruments such as Chromatone and Lippens, but I found very interesting the comments you posted in response to François Parisi earlier. Maybe you could help me with some more information? It seems you made a deep research about Jankó history, not only the instrument construction. Would you mind contacting me at ericoschmitt@yahoo.com.br or on facebook /ericoschmitt? Thank you a lot!
@@ericoschmitt Maybe too late but might be helpful: We joined the pianist during the visit of the museum and dis some short movies about it. You can watch them on my channel "Explaining Janko" ruclips.net/video/cb67ykXJc8o/видео.html
Why did I not know about this?! Why can't you buy midi keyboards with such a layout? :O
There are a few options like Chromatone, Lippens and some people uploading 3D printing projects for free use. Also some other forms of DIY.
But I too hope it becomes more mainstream!
you did not know about this, because neither your parents or your teachers value your lifetime enough, which is limited. Everybody wants to believe that things are good, but they aren´t. Efficiency in education is the project Nr.1 if you are interested in the common good. The elites and rich rulers of this world are interested in stupidity for the majority of people and not in a much easier availability for education, knowledge and culture.
If you want to learn more about the Jankó Piano you can watch our short films we did with the Pianist: ruclips.net/video/cb67ykXJc8o/видео.html
je voudrai le même piano est-ce possible?
Careful ! At the moment, there are cheaply built (although with greedy expensive prizes) constructions on the market, which seem to work, but only for a limited time and for rare usage. One main reason, why janko pianos are rare, is, that piano builders make cheap under levers which are not made with respect for human life and with ignorance to the fatal experiences pianists of the past made with badly cheap built janko pianos. The book: "das janko clavier in seiner vollkommenen Ausführung" (=the janko-piano beeing built in its perfect kind of construction) of Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes, the president of the janko association and friend of janko, says it all. There is a good historic comparison, I want to make: The boehm system for flutes, invented 50 years before janko´s genius ideas, succeeded despite the flute-builders who wanted to continue their lazy constructions, which are cheap for the instrument makers , but expensive for children who pay with their lifetimes.
But the invention of Theobald Böhm succeeded finally, and today, despite especially german stubbornness, the flutes are built like Böhm advised for the benefit of all, even to the benefit of the flute builders, because nowadays the flute is so successful in statistics about music schools, thanks to böhm, but the flute builders have their jobs also because of böhm. In the case of the Janko-piano, instrument makers succeeded to prevent the deserved fame of baron paul of janko, who gave his lifetime for efficiency in education, which is the most beneficial work a human being can do. Now for nearly one and a half century, children had to pay for the laziness and greed of the piano-builders who wanted to build "fast cars" (=janko pianos) with "wooden wheels" (=wooden under-levers) so to speak, because they were used to it and they were and are stupid and irresponsible. What happened? The cars, who could now drive 240km per hour crashed without the appropriate kind of constructions (=rubber-wheels). I speak metaphorically to make this totally clear: the press and jankopianists of the past were absolutely enthusiastic about the jankosystem, they played with joy 14 hours a day and more, which led to the problems which occur, if you build a car with wooden wheels, just because the carriages with horses had wooden wheels and the carriage builders were used to their kind of construction. After a short period of successful concerts and constant joyful playing, the levers started to get cracks or to be more and more uncontrollable, because of the friction among other nasty things on all parts, that occurred, if the janko piano was built with disrespect to human life. So , be careful, all of you, who want to get a janko acoustic piano. The janko keyboard has only 89cm of space, but the piano-harp needs 123cms. The levers have to answer to that in a way, that doesn´t cause friction and constant maintenance-costs for the benefit of irresponsible piano-builder-cheats but the disadvantage of musicians. The solution: the levers of Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes connected with the upper levers of Carl Pfeiffer. It´s possible and not as expensive as piano-builders claim (because they want to frighten pianists just because straight cheap under-levers are easy to build and mean less and cheap investments of time and material for the builder, but a catastrophy for the pianist, who has to buy a new janko piano every 2 years, if he plays on it all day long for 2 years, which always happens after only a short period of owning a janko piano, because soon you will notice, that everything flows and becomes easy and music making becomes the fun that it actually is and stops being the torture of the 1000year old keyboard-system of normal pianos, which was made for another kind of music, than we have today).
The pfeiffer company still excists and the bluethner company could build a janko piano as well, but you have to
be absolutely clear about the levers that are needed: Carl Pfeiffer`s upper levers (they make it possible to have the same touch on each part of each key) connected with a Boyes (Dr.Francis Bryan Boyes=president of the janko piano association, which existed in vienna until 1965, a long time after Boyes was dead) under lever construction (the Boyes under levers prevent costs after 2 years of joy on the jankosystem because it prevents friction among other things). You should NOT COMPROMISE !! Don´t let them talk you into any other kind of cheaper construction !! YOU would have to pay for the consequences and not the piano-makers! Have respect for the costly experiences other pianists made with cheap janko-constructions which were not accordingly built to janko´s or Boyes´ wishes. I lost my life, because my investments in a janko piano and in my institute for efficiency in education and a car with a trailer could not be compensated by concerts, because the piano builder ingnored the contract, so I had to do reparations on the institutes roof for myself and injured my thumbs and lost the ability to prepare for concerts all day. On a janko piano, I could (if I could practice on a janko) use my thumbs on lower rows as well, giving the thumbs a better angle. The "piano-builder" is fine, though ! He offers his "janko-piano" to others , despite the things, specialists found out about it during fights and legal procedures for many years. Thanks to the german justice system which made it possible, that I had to fight for 10 years to get something back from the connected piano "builder" with all his public relationships, and got nothing back for the damages on my life and my project for efficiency in education (the most beneficial man-made project ever). But I never got a well constructed janko piano like the contract said, which could stand 15 hours of playing each day. On videos of janko pianos, watch carefully, if they are cut and looped. If so, you should use your brain. Best wishes for everybody, who supports efficiency in education and this curse for all cheaters and greedy hustlers and corrupt lawers.
@@paulvonjankozuehren5037
Can you give your opinion on Reinert's Janko pianos?
@@mikejett8378 No but I can give you important advice in general: Insist on warranty, pianos are not tested for durability like bicycles or tools, so you are the mouse for the test ! Look carefully inside the mechanics and on the materials. Soft wood for example will cause a lot of trouble . Take lots of witnesses into any shop and insist on written descriptions. Be careful, if you want to play longer than those few moments one plays when testing any piano ! Think whether it is possible for you or friends of yours to build jankokeys in any piano you might already have, especially, since you get very good used pianos for little money nowadays.
If you want to learn more about Jankó you can watch some of the short films we did during our stay in the museum. You can watch them on my channel "Explaining Janko" ruclips.net/video/cb67ykXJc8o/видео.html
WOW! What's your name?? Did you play like this without any practice????
Yes, I don´t have a Jankopiano, only shortly before this video, I got an akkordeon with a button system in only 4 rows, but somewhat jankolike. But I thought a lot about the janko system and played it in my fantasyrooms. Now I bought a chromatone keyboard, which is not a jankosize instrument with proper long keys, but at least it has 6 rows in janko systematic, but also like a button akkordeon in key size. If there were a functioning justice system in Germany, I would have gotten a jankopiano, but this didn´t happen because I payed in advance, which is always not recommendable. But otherwise the "pianobuilder" of the Sauter company wouldn´t start.
@@paulvonjankozuehren5037 Sorry to hear that! Only now I read your answer while revisiting this video. Somehow I missed the notification.
I got a wholetone revolution myself, which unfortunately stopped working in november and I couldn't yet find a way to fix it. But I'm no pianist, so I was learning the basics when it died.
But I'm still curious about who you are, about your career as a regular pianist and how you came to know the Jankó system!
@@paulvonjankozuehren5037 I'm actually writing my term paper for my graduation about isomorphic keyboard instruments with a focus on jankó and chromatone.
There's already a thesis from 1977 by Kristine Kay Naragon, so I'm not going deep into the Jankó history, although I couldn't get my hands on that thesis since there's no online version and I'm in Brazil.
My focus is for info regarding modern instruments such as Chromatone and Lippens, but I found very interesting the comments you posted in response to François Parisi earlier. Maybe you could help me with some more information? It seems you made a deep research about Jankó history, not only the instrument construction. Would you mind contacting me at ericoschmitt@yahoo.com.br or on facebook /ericoschmitt? Thank you a lot!
@@ericoschmitt Maybe too late but might be helpful: We joined the pianist during the visit of the museum and dis some short movies about it. You can watch them on my channel "Explaining Janko" ruclips.net/video/cb67ykXJc8o/видео.html
The sound of he keys is a bit disturbing for me. Somehow it sounds like shaking a bag with walnuts.