[sdiy]RE: [sdiy] Accordion-style controller

[rdrake]

Paul Everett has a DIY MIDI concertina project here: 

http://home.stny.rr.com/peverett/gadget.html

pretty complete writeup, including his switch choice etc.

bbob


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>From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_=D6berg?="
><johannes.oberg at gmail.com>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:26:52
>
>Hi list. I'm prospecting building a chromatic
>button accordion
>keyboard for MIDI. Does anybody have any
>recommendations for switches?
>It seems to me that the technically best idea would
>be to build little
>accordion levers that operate microswitches but
>that feels like
>overkill (and bloody difficult too!).
>
>So I guess I'm looking for SPST pushbuttons with
>the right kind of
>feel to them. If you have any ideas of a simple way
>to make the above
>solution (levers) instead, i'm all ears :-)
>
>/Johannes