[sdiy] Buy (bare) keyboard?

[sdiy]

Hallo David,

where are you located? Pictures? Price?

Harald


Am Freitag, 29. Juni 2007 20:21 schrieb 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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