source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:55:45 -0800 Subject: Microtonal keyboards From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) At the Huygens-Fokker concerts of last month were several generalised keyboard designs at display and the designers were handing out leaflets about them to gauge the public interest. Unfortunately I was not at the last concert and didn't get a chance to talk to one of them. I don't know if there are serious plans to get one in production or that they were just seeing how much response there would be. The designers are Siemen Terpstra Nigtevechtseweg t/o 35A 3633 XV Vreeland Gert Vos Nw Prinsengracht 98 IV 1018 VW Amsterdam Gjalt J. Wijmenga Postbus 30 3633 ZT Vreeland If you want to be kept up to date about any developments of multifunctional keyboards you can send your name and address to Gjalt. And mention if you are interested in buying one if production should become possible. They were also asking for which design people would prefer, but I can't show them by way of a 3D holographic image in an e-mail alas (yet). They must have spent weeks glueing little pieces of cardboard together and the results looked pretty ingenious. All keys have the same size by the way, and are hexagonal or rectangular. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:47 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA01086; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:47:47 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA01084 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id BAA00298; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:47:42 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:47:42 -0800 Message-Id: <199611120444_MC1-BE0-6346@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu