Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (07/29/90)
I need two keyboards. Cheap. First to paste on my computer. Should be a piece of cellophane [like scotch tape] to glue on my computer. MIDI output. I had some toy some years back. I think it cost $10 US. I forget what they call it, maybe capacitance switches, where you just touch. My toy had a small battery, one chip, one 1" speaker. Must have MIDI out plug so use like type writer. Should be produceable in qty for a couple of bucks. Need size equal regular piano and range exactly 3 octaves. f-f-f. That exactly matches the range of the bottom of the base clef to the top of the treble clef, with middle c in the middle, the range of the average human voice~. The second keyboard is same except velocity moveing keys. Can cost a little more, not much. help page Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect. G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. 1505 De Rose Way #66 San Jose, CA 95126 USA [ alvin@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal.cup.portal.com!alvin ] Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
elkies@walsh.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) (07/30/90)
In article <32208@cup.portal.com> Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) writes: > [...] range exactly 3 octaves. f-f-f. That exactly >matches the range of the bottom of the base clef to the top of the treble >clef, with middle c in the middle, the range of the average human voice~. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ A three-octave *average* vocal range!? And here we subaverage humans kvetch about the mere octave and a half of the _Star-Spangled Banner_. By the way, is this ``average human'' male or female? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) [And now some bass will post that he *can* span these three octaves by including falsetto...] --Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu) Department of Mathematics, Harvard University