AW: how to make keyboards look more cool

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

You're the king of coolness, alas I fear not with a death metal crowd...

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: mark sottilaro [mailto:marksottilaro@sbcglobal.net] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005 23:30
An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Betreff: Re: how to make keyboards look more cool


When I was teaching myself keyboard I took a shortcut
and put little sparkley Japenese cartoon stickers on
each key to let me know which keys belong to what
scales.  Worked like a charm and was a hit with the
kids.  I can pretty much play without them now, but
they're still there.

Am I cool?

Mark

--- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
<rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:

> Dear Keyboard players,
>  
> it is a well known fact that keyboards are the most
> uncool looking
> instruments out there on the typical rock stage.
> I've come to the
> conclusion that, apart from specific less than
> perfect design concepts
> of some manufacturers, one of the main reasons is
> the actual keyboard
> itself, i.e. the big white surface.
>  
> I'm thinking about a proper redesign for a project
> of mine (combining
> death metal and jungle/dnb influences). I do not
> want to paint my
> keyboard, so the question is:
>  
> Has anybody experience with a redesign of the
> keyboard, e.g. by putting
> some kind of coloured (black, dark grey) material on
> top, which can be
> put in place and removed quickly, and which will not adversely affect
> the playing itself?
>  
>  
>         Rainer
>