click on any key to start, then type out your tune on your keyboard

This one is has keys assigned to the Janko system. There is a Java applet which does the same thing faster than Flash here. To get it started click on a key first.

Thanks to Peter Roche for the idea for using the computer keyboard. Peter is a partisan of the Wicki system.

Wicki's drawing, patented in 1896, is shown here:





This system is especially suited to diatonic music in home keys and has been revived in the form of the Thummer. You can see videos of it in action