Lady Gaga’s lead keyboard player, Brockett Parsons, has created a circular piano with 294 keys! Known as the Piano Arc or “Brockettship” it is composed of 3 separate 88-note keyboards joined together, and one 28-note control section. The height and tilt are adjustable and the layout allows the musician to move around and more freely rock out as he/she plays.
This piano is not for the faint of heart, uniting three 88-note keyboards and a 30-key control section contiguously with multiple forms of digital inputs and outputs. Parsons writes, “the musical instruments’ key dimensions where the white/black keys intersect are the same as a traditional piano, and it seems to translate easily to most keyboard techniques. That being said, this is NOT your grandmother’s piano.”
When asked how the musician came up with this idea, he replied: “There’s really no reason to do this. This wasn’t made to make money, obviously. We just felt that we wanna do something cool,” adding, “Why should the guitarists have all the fun?”
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