key levelling -- crown?

[Charles Neuman]

Susan Kline <sckline@home.com> wrote:
 > >Has anyone given thought to the possibility that the crown was to
 > >accommodate the ergonomic fact that the tendency of the hand to lower
 > >when being extended from the body center?
 > >
 > > Newton
 > Not really. But reading your idea did give me a momentary mental
 > picture -- a keyboard in a slight arc surrounding the player, so that
 > the player's hands could approach the keys at the extremes of the
 > scale without kinking the wrists.

See the cover of Herbie Hancock's 1974 album "Thrust". He's playing a 
keyboard that wraps around like that (well, an artist makes him look 
like he's playing a keyboard like that). The keyboard is part of a 
control panel for a spaceship that he's flying. Gotta love the 70's.

Charles