Topic: Left-handed piano !
Left-handed piano are very difficult to find, if not impossible. A few piano manufacturers attempted to create 'mirrored' piano.
However left-handed people would love learning on such a piano (look in piano forums to convince yourself).
One nice feature of Pianoteq is the built-in possibility to remap the keyboard... and by the way solves the problem of left-handed people (at least on a midi keyboard).
Here is how to proceed:
With the help of a text editor, save the following text in a file called 'reverse.kbm'
!------%<-----------Cut here--------------%<------
! Mirrored piano
!
! Size of map (greater than or equal to the number of notes in the scale
! to be mapped). The pattern repeats every so many keys:
88
! First MIDI note number to retune:
9
! Last MIDI note number to retune:
96
! Middle note where scale degree 0 is mapped to:
21
! Reference note for which frequency is given:
55
! Frequency to tune the above note to (floating point e.g. 440.0):
440.0
! Scale degree to consider as formal octave (determines difference in pitch
! between adjacent mapping patterns):
88
! Mapping.
! The numbers represent scale degrees mapped to keys. The first degree is for
! the given middle note, the next for subsequent higher keys.
! For an unmapped key, put in an "x". At the end, unmapped keys may be left out.
96
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!------%<-----------Cut here--------------%<------
Load this file in the 'Keymap' field of the 'Tuning' section.
And voila, your keyboard is mirrored !
The sequence C D E F G A B C becomes E D C B A G F E (the black keys location is also mirrored).
If you play normally on such a keyboard, the result can be very surprising, especially with Bach music.
For example, the prelude in G major for Magdalena turns into a nice prelude in minor !
Listen to it in the 'Files' section of the forum: 'Minuet in G - mirrored version.mp3'.
