Keyboard shortcuts on an old keyboard

I am using an old, old keyboard (came with the iMac G3) with my mid-2011 iMac (yes, it's the only keyboard I have for it). I'm wondering if there's a way to create a keyboard shortcut for volume down and volume up on this keyboard. I was able to do the brightness down and brightness up, but I can't seem to get volume commands added. Any aadvice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! I'm running OS X 10.8.4.

Martin,
I assume you're using LR in English (I don't think there's Danish)?
You can achieve what you want by building/modifying the TranslatedStrings.txt file with your modifications in there. For all languages LR is translated into, such a TranslatedStrings.txt file exists (in the "\Resources\xx\" directory below the program installation path), but for English it would have to be created (there is no \en\ directory below\Resources\).
KeyboardTamer does nothing else than modify the TranslatedStrings.txt file, but it can only do it for shortcuts provided for in the PlugIn. You could create a file "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.3\Resources\en\TranslatedStrings.txt" and describe the different shortcuts in there.
The problem is to find out what you have to write into there. For this, you could take lines out of a TranslatedStrings.txt file of another language (i.e. German), and put them (possibly changed) into the English file. Note that only changes must be present in TranslatedStrings.txt, the rest comes from the program.
Example:
The line describing the shortcut to zoom in in Library is coded as follows in the German TranslatedStrings.txt:
"$$$/AgLibrary/KBSC/incrementThumbSize=#"
I changed it to be
"$$$/AgLibrary/KBSC/incrementThumbSize=$"
because # is not accessible without a modifier key on the German keyboad, hence the shortcut does not work,
So the lines to be entered in the file are not that easy to find, but with some creativity (i.e. searching for "=.....", where .... is the shortcut-key that does not work) you should be able to solve most of them. Also, the so created TranslatedStrings.txt should additionally be saved in some other place than the program directory as well, becaus after a new installation it would have to be copied into the resources directory again.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
Message was edited by: b_gossweiler (minor text corrections)

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Message was edited by: b_gossweiler (minor text corrections)

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