source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 22:33:21 -0800 Subject: gen keyboards--Clavette2:The Next Generation From: HFORTUIN@delphi.com Thanks to Manuel for keeping teh rest of the world updated on the generalized keyboard ideas emanating from the Netherlands these days. And thanks to Mr. Aschour, I soon will contact Francois Paris to learn more about his system. In the meantime, you should know that I am making progress in finding engineers to start on a Clavette2, which would basically be like the existing Clavettes, but with 250-300 keys which would be velocity sensitive. NOTHING IS YET CERTAIN, but I've at least interested some local electronic engineers in the "CPU problem", and am working on finding some people brilliant with sensors, and perhaps finding a mechanical engineer. Once this instrument is built, I do plan to have additional copies made on a per-order basis, but of course all of this is likely to be a few years down the road yet. If you are not familiar with the Clavette, you can read about it in the 1995 ICMC Proceedings, or a few more details in the 1994 Yearbook of the Stichting Huygens-Fokker. I still expect the Clavette's future model to be a MIDI controller keyboard/pedal system, rather than include any synthesis or intelligent real-time just tuning adjustments system. Yours truly, HAROLD Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:45 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03365; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:46:43 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03357 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA15793; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 05:46:39 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 05:46:39 -0800 Message-Id: <199611130843_MC1-BEE-DE84@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu