[IC] ePBT Musician (UPDATE 5/5/2020 Kit changings, new renders, minor changings)

[Scucka]

ePBT Musician

Ladies and Gentlemen may I present to you ePBT Musician. This set is inspired by the magnificent musical instrument Piano. A hobby of mine which I practice 7 years. 1 Year ago I got into the keyboard community. Then my goal was to create a set by my favourite musical instrument piano. The sets aims to simplicity and minimalism using gmk colors. Yes I know it's a bow and wob set but with a little change to it

Please fill out this updated google form! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnsREX3Kf4otZVa3kTjy6vgEndigA61nYSby0fQFFd-TJ_1Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Kits

The Composer Kit

The Maestro Kit

The Quartet Kit

The Capriccio Kit

The Espressivo Kit

Colors Used

Renders

Colors may differ due to different lighting setups

Rama M60-A

Rama U80-A

This is how the Capriccio Kit looks like on the ortho and normal 60% layout. Should I let it be?

Pricing

expected to be 100~

Vendors

- KBDfans

Todo:

To finalize the kits

To do a collab
To make a deskmat

BIG SPECIAL THANKS TO:

- Swishy and all the designers discord

My discord: Scucka#3751

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UPDATE 4/9/2020:
 - Added another kit "The Addons Kit" becuase many people wanted a more piano look. (Basically black stripes)
 - Change Alt key to "Alto"
 - Minor changings
 - Added new renders


UPDATE 4/10/2020:
 - Changed the GMK manufacturer to ePBT
 - Minor changings
 - New vendor!

UPDATE 4/11/2020:
 - Added a few keys in the quartet kit
 - Added new novelties
 - New renders
 - Minor changings

UPDATE 4/19/2020
 - Added a new kit "The Espressivo Kit"
 - Fixed and added new renders
 - Minor changings

UPDATE 5/5/2020
 - Added some keys to "The Capriccio Kit"
 - Fixed and added new renders
 - Minor changings
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[-Jerry-]

This looks exceedingly classy.

I don't know if it might resemble a piano a little bit more with the black and white alternating for the QWERTY row?

[quaddepos]

Normally I'm not a big fan of rows being a different color but this does look classy!

I would only recommend looking into the GMK stock colors as they look quite close to WS2 and n9

[nasp]

I don't know if it quite resembles a piano either, but you could def. make it work on an ortho board with alternating black and white columns (wouldn't reach the end of the board of course).

[fakedSkill]

Interesting concept, maybe you can actually render it on an ortho and have white, black, white, black, white, white, black, white etc 

[Abec13]

The face will not be producible by GMK in its current level of detail

[Scucka]

The face will not be producible by GMK in its current level of detail

I'll try to make it less detailed

[Jampot_298]

This has potential, but please consider using gmk stock colours to keep costs low. Also please include UK iso if possible!!! Thanks

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[Pylon]

Why custom colors instead of say, N9 and WS2?

[Scucka]

Why custom colors instead of say, N9 and WS2?

I'm changing it right now just wait

[pngu]

bro your piano is wrong it needs to be striped left to right not top to bottom

[SirShakes]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

[Scucka]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

I tried this and it didn't looked that awesome

[KuroTheCrazy]

Shouldn't the top row of 40s mods be wob like the base kit?

[nasp]

Shouldn't the top row of 40s mods be wob like the base kit?

At least r2 should be black like the base kit

[pngu]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

I tried this and it didn't looked that awesome

its a lot more awesomer imo

[SirShakes]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

I tried this and it didn't looked that awesome

its a lot more awesomer imo

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Looks like a keyboard now imo

[adxlk]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

I tried this and it didn't looked that awesome

its a lot more awesomer imo

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Looks like a keyboard now imo

i only see a piano

[Scucka]

Color fixed

[mrkantz]

I like the way OP has it, the vertical stripes look so tacky

[2Moons]

I second the way OP has it vs zeebra stripes. If OP keeps it the way he has it now, I'm totally in.

I would love to see the novelties a bit smaller on the key. It seems they are pretty large.

[conternecticus]

So I saw an earlier post trying to mimic the piano look with the colorways... I wanna tried and see how it would look like, so I photoshopped the render a bit.

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I think the idea would work better on an ortho.

But how about a simplified view from the top of a grand piano? Like this:

More

Or maybe an alternating 2 blacks - 3 blacks thing on the piano (I barely know where Do is so I'm not sure what those notes are called xd):

[wil]

kinda cracks me up that another BoW set avoids doing text + icon mods. damn

[1391401]

Render looks Grey and White - every piano I have ever played on had the sharp and flat keys in Piano Black.

[gnho]

Is it possible to have two colors on one cap?

[lenznel]

Have you ever considered this layout?

Making the keyset fun practical at the same time!

[pixelpusher]

GMK Clavier sounds classier to me, and is more descriptive.  Am musician.  Will buy

[pengoot02]

WS2 for white plz

[Scucka]

WS2 for white plz

why ws2?

[konstantin]

WS2 for white plz

why ws2?

Yeah, aren't piano keys a warm off-white color like WS1 or CP? I think they were traditionally made from ivory, which isn't pure white.

I guess you could get a GMK color ring just to confirm that WS1 is the best match.

[Jaltr]

Yeah they're made out of ivory originally and have a warm tone.

[Emir]

Anyone with minimal and wob with my icon mod kit that wants to take a real life photo of how this would look like?

[Scucka]

Anyone with minimal and wob with my icon mod kit that wants to take a real life photo of how this would look like?

oh hey! didn't expected you here

[ecbob]

Are you planning for epbt pbt or epbt abs?

[Scucka]

Are you planning for epbt pbt or epbt abs?

pbt

[gnho]

I feel my comment was ignored. If reverse dye-sub is possible, I feel it's also possible to partially dye a cap and make the set actually piano like, no?

[i luv chuletas]

Super interested in this!

As an aside, epbt cool kids ran into the issue that ePBT does not offer r2/r3 1.25 molds, but I see it in your 40's kit? 

[Scucka]

Super interested in this!

As an aside, epbt cool kids ran into the issue that ePBT does not offer r2/r3 1.25 molds, but I see it in your 40's kit? 

I asked kbd about this and they said epbt has 1.25 mold

[rockydbull]

Super interested in this!

As an aside, epbt cool kids ran into the issue that ePBT does not offer r2/r3 1.25 molds, but I see it in your 40's kit? 

I asked kbd about this and they said epbt has 1.25 mold

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=105617.msg2887178#msg2887178

seems like there is conflicting info going out.

[Scucka]

Super interested in this!

As an aside, epbt cool kids ran into the issue that ePBT does not offer r2/r3 1.25 molds, but I see it in your 40's kit? 

I asked kbd about this and they said epbt has 1.25 mold

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=105617.msg2887178#msg2887178

seems like there is conflicting info going out.

Fixed

[kbye]

This will run into the same problem as Kuro/Shiro, no? If I recall, the reverse dye-sub was difficult for them to get right hence why R2 does not have many black keys.

[Scucka]

Hey everyone! There weren't updates due to missing time. This time I bringed a minor update adding some keys to "The Capriccio Kit", the renders were fixed and added new ones. Rest are very minor changins. Please fill the google form! I would be proud to get some feedback on adding something that you would want.

[Scucka]

Hey everyone! There weren't updates due to missing time. This time I bringed a minor update adding some keys to "The Capriccio Kit", the renders were fixed and added new ones. Rest are very minor changings. Please fill the google form! I would be proud to get some feedback on adding something that you would want.

[scoopbb]

can you put row values in the quartet kit. thoroughly confused by the kiting. the " is redundant, there is no white row2 escape or tab (but your planck render has one, also that render has a white r2 tab thats not anywhere in your kits)

[Scucka]

can you put row values in the quartet kit. thoroughly confused by the kiting. the " is redundant, there is no white row2 escape or tab (but your planck render has one, also that render has a white r2 tab thats not anywhere in your kits)

fixed

[rozc]

amazing set!



and add these key on r1 and consider them as arrow keys will be really nice i think

[amperrsand]

I've seen this pop up before, but I think for some reason my eyes glanced over the fact you're going with ePBT. Kinda interested now that I've read the title correctly lol

[low_key_keyboards]

This is super classy and nice!
Might be my new favourite set.

Please stick with PBT. I really prefer it over GMK.

 

[BapoDonu]

Any updates?

[Mistah]

Why not vertical stripes for a piano?

Stick to RAL if you are not using GMK colors btw

I tried this and it didn't looked that awesome

its a lot more awesomer imo

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I love the stripes in the Capriccio kit, however I think that it should keep the pattern from the above comment. The even stripes throughout doesn't look very piano-y. I think starting on the C note (having QA in black) is a good idea, but in that case, the Y, I, and P rows should be black instead of the T, U, and O rows. Pretty awesome that a full octave fits on an ortho, but keeping the keys as they are would keep the B note omitted (as the backspace row would act as a B Flat).

Alternatively, you could just include the entire R2/R3 rows and let people customize it as they wish (not sure how much that would drive up the overall cost). With QMK supporting MIDI, I think this could be a really cool thing to have if the colors properly correspond with notes.