[sdiy] user interfaces, was Radio Shack catalogs

[Ingo Debus]

Am 14.05.2010 um 23:39 schrieb Paul Cunningham:

[difference between mallets and piano]
> the difference is that you are often resting your fingers on the  
> keys and can tell where you are by your position in front of the  
> piano and the black keys.

This was exactly my point. Although, I've seen mallet players resting  
their mallets on the keys while not playing too. Perhaps for that  
very reason?
(BTW, is "keys" the correct term here?)

> i also suspect good mallet players -- and drummers -- get very  
> familiar with where their strike points are independent of vision.

Sure, when playing a big vibraphone or marimba with both hands, you  
can often hardly see at the same what both hands are doing time  
because they are so far apart.

Ingo (building a xylophone-type MIDI controller right now)