Re: [LAU] [OT] Midi pedal board

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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

This is the way I have been leaning. I think it will be the easiest
way.

Greg.

_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Fri Dec 7 16:15:02 2007