[sdiy] Synthesizer for childs?

[Tom May]

"Byron G. Jacquot" <thescum at surfree.com> writes:

> >I want to build some very easy synthesizer for my childs, 3-7 yrs old. Is
> >somewhere on the net some cheap and easy project?
> 
> Maybe a little optical theremin, that uses LDRs instead of antennas?  There
> are several schematics around the web.  Here's one example:
> http://www.maxiespages.com/theremin/optical-thereminBW.gif
> 
> A web search would being several others.

My kids (1 and 3) love keyboards and knobs and switches and buttons of
all kinds.  I let them play with my Pro-One and the 1 year old (who is
quite musical, my wife says she can't tell the difference between his
playing the Pro-One and mine, oh wait, what does she really mean by
that?) likes the gate LED.  My 3 year old loves to flip the tabs on my
mom's organ.  So if I were doing a synth for my kids it would have
plenty of those things.  They also seem to prefer polyphonic
keyboards.  I think the toy companies have figured all of this out
long ago.

Tom.