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I just heard a little bit about "Good Vibrations" on NPR and it's time to ask
again, hey Larry! what's the word on the Tannerin controller that you
mentioned about a year ago (I assume nothing since you know how popular this
stuff is with some of us)?

So here's an idea that I thought of for a "simple" keyboard/ribbon style
controller:
use a resistor divider idea (exactly like a keyboard but with maybe four or
more times as many resistors -- of a smaller value). Have the resistors
mounted on a surface VERY close to one another -- maybe surface mount
resistors would work better. Then suspend a "conductive surface" (a wire
essentially, maybe a guitar string) just above the resistor string.

I know it's not continuous, but it could still be useful. It's always seemed
to me that the difficult part of building a ribbon was the resistive element
-- this eliminates that part.

Any thoughts?
JB