intersteno congress prague 2007 maurice ravel and the weasel ® presented by wolf-heider rein...

Intersteno Congress Prague 2007

Maurice Ravel and the WEASEL®

presented byWolf-Heider Rein

Pforzheim (Black Forest) Germany

A Device Stimulating the Art of Keyboarding

Prague July 24, 2007

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Dear audience

please listen five minutesto the cadenza of Ravel‘s piano concerto:

Maurice Ravel ( *1875 †1937 )

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major

You will hear the soloist Monique Haas

using a keyboard likely manufactured by Steinway & Sons

Maurice Ravel and the WEASEL® A Device Stimulating the Art of Keyboarding


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Maurice Ravel


Orchestre National de la RTFPaul Paray

Soloist Monique HaasRecording 1965

Deutsche Grammophon GmbH Hamburg



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Maurice Ravel


Maurice Ravel


The piano cadenza begins in a short time

and goes on for 222 seconds



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Excerpt from Durand Editions Musicales © 1937


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inter key stroke interval

iksi = 104 ms



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iksi = 104 ms (inter key stroke interval)

is equivalent to 580 kspm (key strokes per minute)



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580 kspm



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580 kspm



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slowing down to ...


inter key stroke interval iksi =115 ms


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520 kspm


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520 kspm


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520 kspm



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520 kspm



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520 kspm


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Maurice RavelConcerto for the left hand

for Piano and Orchestra in D major


Dear audienceyou have listened to the cadenza of

Performance with top level precision oftouch force, expression, zero mistakes, timing,

520 and 580 kspm without striving for maximum speed:

One hand is totally sufficientfor high speed manual data transmission

! ! !


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Tone transmission board with 85 tone select positions

Text transmission board with 45 character select positions

1/6Average frequencyin German language 2/3


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Funktion keys

Navigation mode

Text mode

Data mode

PC transmission board with 150 select positions

7CODE bebkgn

blue

black

green


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The WEASEL®

Wheel for swivelling to both sides

Three long keys with vertical sensor pads for fore-middle-ring finger

Two side keys for thumb and little finger

Wrist support with push-pull detection

7CODE

Ctrl Alt Start

Separatedisplay

showing the complete layout

and lighting up thecurrent field of

touch spots


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Operatingthe WEASEL®

Swivelleft or right

between 1 of 5 positions

Presskey at1 of 5pos.

Slideup or down

on pressed keybetween

1 of 3positions

7CODE

Ctrl Alt Start

Pushpull

of wrist support between 1 of 3 positions


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The Weasel differentiates 15 swivel and wrist positions (input fields)

In each input field it differentiates 45 different input signals (5,5 bit)

9 single strokes pressed sequentially

+ 21 double strokes pressed simultaneously (easy to play chords only)

+ 15 triple strokes pressed simultaneously (easy to play chords only)

Combined with thumb plus little finger the Weasel is able to distinguish2 700 different input signals (11,4 bit) with one manual input movement


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The Weasel saves space in front of the screenand makes PC-work more comfortable

for everybody

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Erg onomische Reg el :


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Maurice Ravel and the WEASEL®

A Device Stimulating the Art of Keyboarding

First time public announcement of the WEASEL idea

at the Intersteno Congress Prague 2007


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The WEASEL®

one-handed touch-typingsimple – convenient – rapid

The WEASEL ideais looking forward to a brigth future

and confidently expects to discover friendsamongst all enthusiasts for keyboarding

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