MOTM

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