Microtonal Spiral Piano
Shares rank 12 of 14 web apps by recommenders
Shows relationships between tones on a spiral layout that people find clearer than a normal keyboard, bridging modern and historical tunings. Caveat: hard-to-find tuning settings and layout breaks on mobile.
Shows relationships between tones on a spiral layout that people find clearer than a normal keyboard, bridging modern and historical tunings. Caveat: hard-to-find tuning settings and layout breaks on mobile.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Tuning settings hard to find
“The settings for the actual tuning system (the point of this webapp) were a bit hard to find though.”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “Microtonal Spiral Piano” Layout does not fit or scroll
“It's unusable on mobile browsers - centers the page, can't scroll left or right.”
Comment from 31 Dec 2025 in “Microtonal Spiral Piano” “In my desktop Firefox it does not fit horizontally, and it is not scrollable”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “Microtonal Spiral Piano”
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What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the spiral positioning is very interesting, it shows the relationship between the higher order much better than a normal keyboard”
“In my desktop Firefox it does not fit horizontally, and it is not scrollable”
“The settings for the actual tuning system (the point of this webapp) were a bit hard to find though.”
“Very delightful even just to run a finger back and forth across a row on the keyboard.”
“It's unusable on mobile browsers - centers the page, can't scroll left or right.”
“aims to bridge the gap between modern western music with historical and global tunings”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.