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http://www.pro.com.eg/mazzika/details/e-kb-play.htmIf you get this keyboard, she'll really whack you! A few years back, I talked ot Buddy, my cowriter then, about designing a keyboard that would have 1/4 tone steps, not just 1/2 tone ones. Today, I was drawing up what such a keyboard might look like. BUT, "searching" for 1/4 tone keyboards, to make sure there weren't any like mine envisioned one yet, I came across this Arabic style keyboard. Not sure where to by one,,Ebay?! Ha! If you want to step outside of your box, then this might just do it! My version would be very different, but you would get the options to do some different sounding music anyway, (with tones you are not using now of course), and while working with a familiar keyboard,,,,sort of. Check it out. Get used to this one,,,,for if I do what I envision, (with the help of many), it will be a revolution to music, for sure, If it catches on, that is. I wasn't going to talk about my vision, but since there already is at least one such 1/4 tone "optional" keyboard, I thought to let you know about it. Tell Sandra I'm sorry, but us musicians have to help each other, right? ("If" this is Help!) So, as I said above in posts,,,,"It's all in there". I wasn't kidding! That, and much more. I think us piano players could one day play a keyless keyboard, much like a fret less bass. Imagine that! Slurs, slides, wiggles, with much more than even what 1/4 notes would give us! and even steady playing, if wanting to go back to the usual box you think you have there! Ok,,,back to the drawing board. Hey John, Yes, I'm aware of quarter-tone keyboards/pianos and quarter-tone/microtone music. They've been around a long time. And no, I'm not ready to buy one in the near future. They require much finer hearing than what I have  Besides, these quarter-tones you speak of aren't out of the "box". They're tones within the cracks of the box. What I've been referring to (pondering) from my first post on was totally new half tones - out of the "box" (beyond the physical capability of our system). Just pondering Earth's limitations... And yes, our imagination can far surpass our limitations. On the other hand; remember the reverb units back in the 50’s? They were huge monstrosities with coils that could only produce one reverb. The scientist’s at that time said it to be impossible to build a smaller unit that could produce such reverb. That was pre-digital thinking. The 12 half-tones and their octaves are more than enough for me to handle in this lifetime (unless I live for several centuries  ). John 
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