[sdiy] Buy (bare) keyboard?

[David Wagenbach]

I have a few bare, 4 and 5 oct keyboards I could part
with. They're NOS single bus CV keyboards, possibly
Matshusta brand. 
David


--- Edward King <edwardcking2001 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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