Inspector gaget arms.

To play 144ET guitars......

Well, what about designing a robot which had many little fingers?

Difficult to apply experssion, unless we had a randomising variable for
position and pressure of pluck, mabey off key variables?.

Actually, I am thinking about making an "African thumb piano" player from a
make shift spring/pulley/hydraulic home built keyboard, with red quarter
note keys.

Each key controls a circuit individually, which controlls a motor's speed.

Mabey even three motors, for how hard/velocity responce with a timer circuit.

Each motor has "flap jack spoke flappers", they type that I used to put on
my banana back pushbike when I was a young lad, growing up in Paekakariki.

(We used to pedal down to the pie shop on Saturday, and play "Galaga, and
Dig-dug" in circa 1981).

The flappers used to roar like mad when you pedaled.

I'm sure that the principal could be applied to the twangers on a thumb
piano, with Polyphony of playing suitable for 144ET*7octs.

| Clockwise spins, each flap has certain spoke, with a
lovely "loosely fitted" sound.
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Is the frequency proportional to speed?

The African thumb piano which my brother Jake gave me has really interesting
PM propertys-you can get really cool sounds, and a HELL OF A LOT OF THEM,
with a bit of imagination-and there are aluminium can strips around the
base, over the sound board, which I'm sure could be made out of annealed
nickel/iron alloy (below Curie point, of course), and mucked around with
pickups.

These give a really "buzzy" sound.

Am gradually pooling these ideas to a folder, and one day will make them a
reality.

I have SO MANY, in fact, that I am considering buying VOICE DIRECT, to speed
up the info input process.

Also, WHAT DO I DO TO TAKE OVER BART HOPKIN'S EXPERIMENTAL MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS????

I simply CANNOT sit by, and let a brilliant magazine like this die out.

Will E-Mail him, to see what can be done to rectify the situation.

Sarn "Polyverse Philosopher" Ursell.

Sarn Richard Ursell wrote:

> From: Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@pop.ihug.co.nz>
>
> To play 144ET guitars......
>
> Well, what about designing a robot which had many little fingers?

I know this is a wild concept...but how about playing
slide or fretless? A bit of ear training couldn't hurt!

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