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

[Harry Bissell]

Here's a new silly idea... Make the frets out of material that is alternately
conducting/non-conducting... like "Zebra Strips" (tm) an elastomer used to
connect liquid crystal displays to PCBs (by compression) in cheap pocket
calculators....

not as silly as the semiconductor frets... but if I could buy THEM they would not
be silly at all.....

H^) harry

Ingo Debus wrote:

> Theo wrote:
> >
> > Tought about that too.
> > Srtings have to handel a lot of tention and are subject to mechanical wear.
> > All in all resistive wire strings seems not so easy.
>
> I didn't mean to tune the wires to accurate guitar string pitch. But
> yes, strings have to be replaced from time to time ;-)
>
> > Maybe resistive frets could be a possibility.
> > Some one knows about a hard reststive material?
>
> How should that work? If you ground all the strings and sense the
> resistance between fret end and ground, you can't tell if one or more
> strings are in touch with a fret. Even if you scan the strings, i.e.
> ground only one string at a time it still seems difficult.
>
> Ingo