[sdiy] Buy (bare) keyboard?

[Edward King]

Actually yes, I should have qualified my comments as they apply ONLY to 
keyboards and not organ manuals. In my case, the reason I avoided those was 
because I needed 76 or 88 key mechanisms as a minimum.

EK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dj hohum" <djhohum at gmail.com>
To: "Edward King" <edwardcking2001 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "BR" <phonotron at yahoo.com>; "Steve Moorby" <steve.moorby at ntlworld.com>; 
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Buy (bare) keyboard?


>I just wanted to emphasize, however, that this is almost always untrue
> with organ mechanisms. Unfortunately, they may do not have the added
> rail for velocity sensitivity.
>
> On 6/26/07, Edward King <edwardcking2001 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> In my original design (some 10-15 years ago), I was going to use the ones
>> from Maplin electronics. Then they disappeared, so I was going to rip 
>> apart
>> a commercial midi controlelr keyboard.
>> Then it dawned on me that using an existing keyboard mechanism and 
>> putting
>> my own electronics in wouldnt be a bad idea, so I went on a shopping 
>> spree
>> and bought a few secondhand keyboards.
>>
>> Regrettably, not one of them was suitable. The usual issues were that -
>> being proprietary devices - the manufacturers had used up all available
>> space in the machines and used manufacturing techniques that prohibit
>> re-using the mechanism.
>>
>> Eventually I worked out that the only ones suitable were the more 
>> expensive
>> ones, making it impractical to approach the problem this way.
>>
>> Having said that, I didnt try every machine on the market, just 4 or 5 
>> and I
>> know that others on this list have reported some degree of success by
>> re-using existing keyboards. If it were me, I would shell out the few
>> hundred quid and get a fatar keyboard mechanism. Expensive maybe, but its 
>> a
>> great starting point and certainly worth the investment.
>>
>> EK
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "BR" <phonotron at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Edward King" <edwardcking2001 at yahoo.co.uk>; "Steve Moorby"
>> <steve.moorby at ntlworld.com>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Buy (bare) keyboard?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > This brings to mind a question Ive had.  I was
>> > planning on just taking a toy piano's keyboard and
>> > re-wiring it to whatever synth I end up making (havent
>> > made one yet).  Has anyone tried this?  would it work?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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