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I'd love to get one myself. I _love_ alternatives to keyboards: new
playing techniques help create new music (my Buchla Marimba Lumina is
quite inspiring, as is using my theremin through the MS-20
pitch/voltage converter...). However, in the copy of Make magazine I
picked up today, there may be the best controller: a DIY sock-monkey
MIDI controller. The sensors are sewn into his (her?) limbs, and the
corresponding motions send out CCs. In all seriousness, the
possibilities of MIDI sensors in just about anything should get the
creative juices flowing. Grant, care to take on a digital project?

-andrew bunny

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@...> wrote:
>
> The fingerboard is quite playable! It is no problem to play in tune,
> and it has quite a bit of flexibility.
> 
> As far as affordability, when you consider that the Fingerboard is
> designed and constructed as a no-compromise product, it is quite
> affordable - I dropped the cash because I really don't think that we
> will ever see anything like this that is better than this.
> 
> The truth is that there are not that many of us who are willing to
> dedicate the time in front of this brilliantly conceived device to
> become more than 'adequatly proficient.'
> 
> As the CVC will use the Fingerboard's CPU as its brain, I don't think
> that the CVC will be astronomically expensive....
> 
> gary
> 
> 
> "stefanbonnet" <stefanbonnet@> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know how practical playing with finger tips on an infinite
> scale in 3 dimensions really 
> > is, string instruments do that in a more convenient/tight way...and
> the price...(huuh?)
> > 
> > I'd really like to find an alternative to on/off mechanisms and
> equal tempered scales, 
> > though...
> >
>