A circular keyboard is a musical keyboard in the shape of a circle or semicircle. They are a relatively new concept in music, while a curved keyboard is mentioned as an invention of an Australian Cluham already in a Czech newspaper from 1909, to which (according to the 1909 newspaper) "experts attribute great importance for the future."Český svět: illustrovaný čtrnáctidenník. Praha: Karel Hipman, 9.7.1909, 5(39), s. . Dostupné také z: https://ndk.cz/uuid/uuid:0aa80eb0-7ed4-11e4-a422-001018b5eb5c. (Czech)
Examples Max Rebo of the Star Wars franchise plays a circular keyboard in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. Bandleader Zorak sat inside a circular keyboard on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, an animated television show that premiered in 1994. The PianoArc is a circular wrap-around keyboard piano with 292 keys and a outer diameter. It was envisioned by Brockett Parsons, the keyboardist for Lady Gaga and first used in 2012. It was constructed by a friend for an estimated $120,000.
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