I found this short video of a Thumb Piano being played. My tiny Addy's Sansa sounds just like it only with fewer notes. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Julia
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I found this short video of a Thumb Piano being played. My tiny Addy's Sansa sounds just like it only with fewer notes. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Julia
wow cool! thanks Julia!
Julia!!! that was neat!! now I want one for my music collection! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Does Addy's thump piano really work?
Yes it really does work. You can slide the metal keys around to tune it the way you want. I like tuning mine to a normal scale - Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do. (Sorry, I forget the technical name for that scale.)
The scale is not like a regular piano or xylophone keyboard though, moving from left to right. Instead, it starts in the middle and then each note to the side gets progressively higher. So that means the thumb piano is tuned thus from left to right:
Ti...Sol...Mi...Do(low)...Re...Fa...La...Do(high)
To play a scale, you would use left thumb-Do, right thumb-Re, left thumb-Mi, right thumb-Fa, left thumb-Sol etc.
You use the thumbs of both hands to play it. Addy's Sansa is small so it has it's limitations. I've not tried unusual tunings with mine yet but will some day.
Julia