[sdiy] Real piano keyboards: any use?

[cheater cheater]

There's a very simple to use keyboard interface from uC Apps. check
the 'midification' forum at forum.midibox.org

You don't need accelerometers for velocity info - just two buttons and
a timer...

Cheers
D.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Matthew Smith <matt at smiffytech.com> wrote:
> Quoth David G. Dixon at 2009-01-29 12:26...
>>
>> This might sound kinda crazy, but my kid's school is throwing out an old
>> piano (on Friday), and I was wondering whether one could make profitable
>> use
>> of its innards for synth purposes.  Any ideas?  Has anyone out there ever
>> pressed a real piano keyboard into electronic service?  What about
>> whacking
>> piezos with the hammers instead of strings for some velocity-controlled
>> analog mojo?
>
> Simple answer: if you've got the space to store/work on it, grab it!
>
> Then you can study the mechanism and see what is/is not feasible.
>
> If I were getting destructive/constructive on a piano, I might consider
> putting magnetic pickups on each course of strings (rather than each
> string).  You could then either mix the whole lot and process it of do
> per-course processing - I'm thinking here of something like a guitar synth
> controller, but with a whole load of extra strings.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
>
>
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