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The piano as a typewriter
Max Planck Society, 2013
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- What it is
- A Max Planck Society news item about the PianoText study, in which researchers assigned letters and words to piano notes and chords so that people could type on a piano keyboard. It describes amateur pianists writing on the instrument as fast as experienced typists on an ordinary keyboard.
- How much weight it carries
- An institutional press release written to publicize research, so its headline is a summary and not a measured comparison. The underlying study is the peer-reviewed PianoText paper, and the release describes a new piano layout, not pianists typing on a standard keyboard.
Facts taken from this source
- A 2013 Max Planck Society news item headlined its piano research with the claim that pianists play as fast as experienced typists on a QWERTY keyboard.
“Pianists play their instruments as fast as experienced typists on a QWERTY keyboard” (Page headline)