[coldtea]

>What I wish was explained to me at a younger age is the fact that there's nothing "special" about the black keys on a piano.

I wish we had pianos with slightly thinner keys (to allow for the same reach) but with same-level black and white keys.

It would make piano playing normalized (like e.g. bass playing is), and make learning scales, transposing, etc childs play.

It would probably still need some color or small "bump" on C to know where our hands are, but that would be it.

Of course there are also several hexagonal etc keyboards with similar normalized layouts, but they also haven't caught on.