Hand board musical instrument

A musical instrument, comprising

• a key selection receiver operable to receive a user selection of a selected key, and
• a note player operable to produce individual notes in the selected key,
• the note player having a plurality of note playing finger regions arranged on a playing surface in a splayed orientation in correspondence with fingers of a hand,
• wherein a layout of the individual notes playable by each of the finger regions of the note player corresponds to a selected chord, in which five finger regions of the note player correspond to five notes of a pentatonic scale corresponding to the selected key or the selected chord, and in which three inner finger regions of the note player correspond to a root note, a third note, and a fifth note of the selected chord in the selected key,
• wherein the note player includes a finger region for each finger,
• wherein the finger region comprises a central region, at least one octave plus region and at least one octave minus region, wherein contacting the central region produces the selected note, contacting a first of the at least one octave plus regions will produce a note an octave higher than the selected note, and contacting a first of at least one octave minus regions produces a note an octave lower than the selected note, wherein the five finger regions of the note player correspond to five notes of a major pentatonic scale or minor pentatonic scale corresponding to the selected key, wherein:
• index finger, middle finger and ring finger regions of the note player are operable to produce notes respectively corresponding to the root note, the third note, and the fifth note of the chord in the selected key,
• a thumb region and a pinky region operable to produce a 4th scale degree or 7th scale degree from the major pentatonic or a 2nd scale degree or 6th scale degree from the minor pentatonic scale of the root note;
• and
• one or more hypothenar/thenar palm regions operable to alter one or more parameters of the musical instrument or user configurable options of the musical instrument,
• wherein with a selected key, the note player is operable to provide appropriate notes to the finger positions for the selected key, such that, while accessing different notes, a user's fingers remain relatively positioned in respective finger positions on the note player, and
• wherein when the selected key changes, the appropriate notes change for each of the finger positions while the user's fingers remain relatively positioned in the respective finger positions on the note player.