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RE: [OT] Violin midi (was average age of the looping community)

Most Violin players would find the keyboard/fingerboard concept as so
far removed from playing a violin that they would probably rather use a
keyboard to get what they want rather then use something so completely
alien. You need strings and a bow to be playing a Violin/Viola/Cello
anything else is too far removed and you might as well consider another
instrument, I do have a MIDI guitar I just would like to use MIDI in
conjunction with the Electric Violin. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@loopers-delight.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:05 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: [OT] Violin midi (was average age of the looping community)


At 09:04 AM 2/11/2003, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>Why don't more companies try to come up with touch sensitive necks with

>a
>vibration sensor for each string, like the old Casio MIDI guitar (not
the 
>real guitar with the hex pickup, but the plastic ones they 
>marketed).  Isn't this how the Starr guitar controllers work?  I
imagine 
>it could work with any string instrument.

because they tried already and went out of business.

Either it ends up totally unlike the traditional instrument, so hardly 
anybody wants to use it, or it is a lot like the traditional 
instrument  but it costs so much to manufacture that nobody can afford
it.

If you can solve that problem you will be a hero.

kim


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