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

[Roel Das]

> 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....)

Don't hope on that. About a year ago (before having chronic tendinitis on
both wrists), I could easily do that. In his book 'Chord Chemistry', Ted
Greene even gives diagrams for chords that would short up to 7 frets!! (By
the way, this is a very nice book for any guitarist that wants to learn ALL
about chords. It does take a few decades of practice, however...)

And then we aren't even talking about 10 finger tapping WITH a capo between
3rd and 4th fred!!

What you can hope for is that most people that try this stuff, and still
take the time to build one of these, won't have time left to do serieus warm
ups etc, so they will eventually end up with wrist injuries too...

BTW, and jsut how are you going to handle bottle necks? :-)

Just a little motivation for the brains amongst us...
Roel


>
> 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
>
>