Enharmonic keyboard

An enharmonic keyboard is a musical keyboard, where enharmonically equivalent notes do not have identical pitches. A conventional keyboard has, for instance, only one key and pitch for C♯ and D♭, but an enharmonic keyboard would have two different keys and pitches for these notes. Traditionally, such keyboards use black split keys to express both notes,[a][b] but diatonic white keys may also be split.[c]

As an important device to compose, play and study enharmonic music,[d] enharmonic keyboards are capable of producing microtones and have separate keys for at least some pairs of not equal pitches that must be enharmonically equal in conventional keyboard instruments.[3]

  1. ^ a b Jerkert (2010), p. 121.
  2. ^ a b Rasch (2009), p. 61.
  3. ^ Randel, Don Michael (2003). "Enharmonic keyboard". Harvard Dictionary of Music (4th ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2 – via Google books.


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