Islamic musical and written traditions, which read right-to-left, might have developed piano keyboards in mirror-image to Western layout if keyboard instruments had originated in Islamic cultures, demonstrating that cultural-linguistic orientation can override or interact with supposed innate ordering principles.
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Rupert SheldrakeEvidence Quote
“if if if pianos had first been developed in the caliphate who in Baghdad or somewhere perhaps the the upper part of the keyboard would have been the lower notes and the Rhythm Section and it would might have been a mirror image of existing people”
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