On Dec 6, 2007 7:01 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:08:53PM -0400, Gregory Anderson wrote:
> > People writing about pedalboards reminded me of a little project I was
> > planning to get working on. I bought a single octave pedalboard off of
> > ebay a few months ago. It is off of a hammond organ. I want to make it
> > into a midi controller so that it is unable. I don't really know where
> > to start though. Does anybody know of a good resource of the subject.
>
> Maybe get a cheap MIDI or USB keyboard with broken keys, and take it apart, and just wire the keyboard keys up to the pedal keys?
>
A colleague of mine who builds digital organs professionally did
something similar, except he didn't take apart the USB MIDI device -
he built a pedal board out of wood and connected the pedals to the
keys using string and eye bolts. Very impressive - it reminded me of
the scene in Goonies where Data has to play the bone organ to escape
;-)
Lee
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