Paul von Jankó was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 pianist

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 and engineer

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.

He first studied mathematics

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 and music

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 in Vienna

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, where he was a pupil of H. Schmitt, J. Krenn and Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner

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. He then moved to Berlin

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 where he during the years 1881 and 1882 studied mathematics at the city's University, and piano with H. Erlich. In 1882 Jankó invented the Jankó keyboard

Janko keyboard

The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó in 1882.Based on the premise that the hand can barely stretch more than a 9th on the piano, and that all scales are fingered differently, Jankó's new keyboard had two interlocking 'manuals' with three...

, with six rows of keys.

From the year 1886 he used this instrument at his own concert journeys. The Norwegian

Norway

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 pianist Tekla Nathan Bjerke was a pupil of Jankó, and played many concerts in Norway using this instrument.

External links

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00004266/images/index.html?id=00004266&projekt=1153295428&nativeno=147Obituary in Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

The Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau was a German-language journal dealing in large part with the manufacture of musical instruments...

, Vol. 40, 1919-20]