English Explanatory Dictionary

Jankó keyboard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of piano keyboard that, instead of one long row of keys, has an array of keys consisting of two interleaved manuals with three touch-points for every key lever, making six rows of keys. Each vertical column of three keys is a semitone away from the neighboring ones, which are in the alternate rows.

Word forms

Jankó keyboard Jankó keyboards

Etymology

Designed by Paul von Jankó, a Hungarian pianist and engineer, in 1882.

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