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Now Bruce, you've got me thinking weird again---

The only dual manual synth that I remember reading about was one of the
Sequential Prophets (maybe the 10).  Otherwise I don't know if this has been
attempted in the last 20 years, excepting maybe a couple of the B-3 clones,
but these are organ emulators, and not meant to be synths.

I subscribed to the Analogue Heaven group a while back and was asked to go
nuts with the rest of the group and brainstorm on a new analog synth design
by an associate of Dr. Robert Moog (pronounced like LOON, GOOF, or KOOK --
does anyone realize how many times he's sold off the name "moog"?  And have
you ever read interviews where he gets angry for "somebody using his name"?
But I digress....)  Anyway, nobody requested a dual manual keyboard.  This
would be a VERY COOL feature, don't you agree?  If set up like a B-3 or a
real organ where one hand could reach 2 sounds at once - this would be
awesome.  Look Bruce and the rest of you, I've got a few old beer cans
sitting around, and maybe some baseball cards I could auction on Ebay to get
some of the initial capital to start a new synth company.  We could like,
uh, rule the synth world man.  But again I digress.

It seems to be impossible to get 2 synths close enough vertically to get the
dual manual effect.  Even if you could adjust the stand somehow, it is
impossible to see the display on the lower synth or reach it's buttons.

Meanwhile, has anyone found out why the piano keyboard is designed with
skinny black keys and wider white ones, and furthermore who determined how
fat each type would be?

Ed Edwards
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Wahler" <bruce@...>
To: <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Keyboard Weirdness (a little OT)


> Elson,
>
> Actually, this whole mess started because I watched a lesson tape of one
of
> my favorite Hammond players, the late Jack McDuff, where he was
> demonstrating a technique where he played an open chord on the upper
> keyboard with a soft tone, then held his hand steady and graced down to
the
> same notes on the lower keyboard, which had a much brighter tone
> setting.  If performed quickly (and accurately), the overall effect is
> similar to using a wah-wah or Mu-tron device.
>
> On a Hammond B-3, with two keyboards only about an inch or so apart,
> height-wise, it's a reasonable technique to master.  On a pair of modern
> keyboards, though, it's difficult to get the two sets of keys close
> together, and so the result can actually be a sprained finger!  After
doing
> my best to angle the AN1x above my Fatar, I still wasn't getting the
> desired results.  That's when I noticed that the High Cs on the two
> keyboards didn't quite line up -- and the rest, as they say, is history
...
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> --
> Bruce Wahler
> Design Consultant
> Ashby Solutions"
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> bruce@...
>
> At 02:54 p 7/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 11:04 AM 7/13/01 -0400, Bruce Wahler wrote:
> > >For those who like to keep score:
> > >
> > >Yamaha AN1x             32.50"
> > >KORG 01/W Pro           32.50"
> > >Roland XP50             32.88"
> > >Roland HP-3500s         33.00"
> >
> >Hey, it's not the size that counts but...
>
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