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Don't see anyone mentioning here that you can also play the piano with the ASDF...(etc) keys on your computer's keyboard. It was way easier playing it that way, rather than clicking with the mouse. Great job!

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And if you use the computer keyboard to play, you can also play chords. Unfortunately, you can only get up to the 2nd G on the computer keyboard before you run out of keys. Also, the tuning on the highest four notes seems to be off (at least when using Chrome on Windows).

Thanks! I was struggling with trying to keep it super minimal looking and letting people know how it works.

If you hit "0" or the button in the top right, it'll show a dashboard with settings and info on how to use it. I make that minimize from full size during page load as a vague indicator that it's hidden up there.

Also, I don't know if anyone notices the "info" link in the bottom left that scrolls the whole page down and shows some more info?

When I get chance I'll make a quick video of using it with the looper to perform a song.

No, I didn't notice the “info” link. My browser window is about 1300 pixels high, so I just saw the piano at the top and a huge expanse of whitespace below it, and didn’t bother examining the whitespace for anything.

The site mentions that in the settings/help page you get by clicking the top-right button or pressing 0. “Controls: play using home row and above …”. But it is kind of confusing that it has settings and help on the same screen, written in the same style of text, with no separation between them.

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