[AH] Re: [sdiy] replacement keyboards available

greg montalbano greg.montalbano at ucop.edu
Mon Mar 24 20:15:06 CET 2003


At 08:01 PM 3/24/03 +0100, Andre wrote:
>On 2003-03-24 18:58 +0100, jhaible at debitel.net wrote:
> >
> > Are these rubber dome keyboards, or metal contacts?
>
>Metal. Motif-6 keyboards look and feel exactly like DX7 keyboards.
>If you open a DX7, you'll see that each key has two contacts at
>the end of thin springy metal blades. The feel is very different
>from that of a rubber dome keyboard.

This sounds very similar to the (unjustly underrated) Korg DW8000 
keyboard---same kind of metal contacts (although the Korg also has those 
metal weights inside the plastic keys).

~GMM



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