Paul von Jankó (2 June 1856 – 17 March 1919) was a Hungarian

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. He first studied

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

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. He then moved to

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where he during the years 1881 and 1882 studied mathematics at the city's University, and piano with H. Erlich. Jankó was also a proponent of the

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, though he had formerly been an

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. On the 16th of August 1909, Jankó became a member of the Ido-Akademio, the predecessor to the

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. He was secretary of the Academy from 1912 to 1913. Jankó also created the Ido-Stelo, the symbol of the

movement, modelled after the Verda Stelo. In 1882 Jankó

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ed the

Jankó keyboard The Jankó keyboard is a musical keyboard layout for a piano designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882. It was designed to overcome two limitations on the traditional piano keyboard: the large-scale geometry of the ...

, with six rows of keys, drawing upon earlier designs by Conrad Henfling (1708), Johann Rohleder (1791) and William Lunn (1843).Janko Keyboard Piano
on Piano World From the year 1886 he used this instrument at his own concert journeys. The Norwegian pianist Tekla Nathan Bjerke was a pupil of Jankó, and played many concerts in Norway using this instrument. The Jankó keyboard wasn't used by many people as it was hard for them to relearn new fingering on a strange keyboard.Margaret Cranmer. "Jankó, Paul von." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed October 11, 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/14136.

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Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau The ''Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau'' ("ZfI") (''Journal for the Construction of Musical Instruments'') was a German-language journal dealing in large part with the manufacture of musical instruments. It was published in Leipzig from 1880 throug ...

, Vol. 40, 1919-20

References

1856 births 1919 deaths Hungarian classical pianists Hungarian male musicians Hungarian male classical pianists Hungarian engineers Hungarian inventors Idists 19th-century classical pianists 19th-century Hungarian male musicians Musicians from Austria-Hungary Engineers from Austria-Hungary {{Hungary-classical-musician-stub