MIDI-guitar (was: Touch Switches/TS instruments )

[Harry Bissell]

no again (quick version more later...)

Think Barre Chord where a single string may be shorted to as many as
4 places...

And the third string may be shorted to the second and sixth strings, which
might cover 4 or more frets...

The only ray of hope (forlorn hope...) is that nobody is real likely to short
more than 5 frets (unless they have 12" long fingers....)

If this is clear let me know, if not I'll draw the gloomy diagram of why its
as bad as it is...

H^) harry  (who would be happy to have missed something simple....)

Paul Perry wrote:

> At 08:59 PM 14/05/00 -0400, Harry Bissell wrote:
> >Reply:   no!
> >The string is shorted to the fret before AND behind the finger... so if you
> >have>fretted strings on any adjacent frets they are shorted together
> through the
> >X (strings) Y (frets) matrix. You CANNOT isolate the strings once they
> >touch>the frets...
> >that's why everyone cuts the frets into pieces...
>
> Yeah, but, since the two frets are adjacent, you just need a bit of logic to
> say,
> 'hey the 3rd string touches fret n and n+1, that means n'
>
> Now, you're going to come up with a counter example where there are more
> than one
> touching the same fret.. but, given that there are only 6 strings & they are
> only
> being fretted at a maximum of two adjacent points..
> >
> >Moral: everything easy has been done already !!!
>
> CounterMoral: think harder already !!!
>
> paul 'smartarse' perry melbourne australia