Alessandro Sontuoso
@sontuoso.bsky.social
Associate Professor at City University London, Chapman University affiliate, former PPE Fellow at UPenn | Economic theory & experimentation | Researching epistemic, strategic, and ethical dimensions of individual action | sontuoso.info
Hard to believe he was performing on stage less than three weeks ago :-/
July 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Hard to believe he was performing on stage less than three weeks ago :-/
If I remember right from music theory, the layout isn’t a drafting artifact though. A piano keyboard has 2 halves—an upper half dividing the octave into 12 semitones (counting black & white keys), and a lower half dividing it into 7 scale steps (white keys). So the asymmetry reflects the 12-to-7 map
June 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If I remember right from music theory, the layout isn’t a drafting artifact though. A piano keyboard has 2 halves—an upper half dividing the octave into 12 semitones (counting black & white keys), and a lower half dividing it into 7 scale steps (white keys). So the asymmetry reflects the 12-to-7 map
Interesting. I remember mobile fruit & veggie trucks in Italy blasting prerecorded lyrical announcements, typically in dialect. Ice cream trucks in the US still play repetitive tunes, but strangely without lyrics—maybe because many early immigrants’ kids didn’t speak English as their first language?
January 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Interesting. I remember mobile fruit & veggie trucks in Italy blasting prerecorded lyrical announcements, typically in dialect. Ice cream trucks in the US still play repetitive tunes, but strangely without lyrics—maybe because many early immigrants’ kids didn’t speak English as their first language?