Re: generalized MIDI keyboard

> [Carl Lumma, TD 493.1]
> There's a lot of things I don't like about the MicroZone.
> But it's Erv's keyboard, so I don't have to like it.
> There's absolutely no reason you couldn't have somebody
> custom-build you a 5-octave, 48-key/octave, multi-rank
> MIDI controller keyboard with reachable octaves for $5000 US.
> That's about 1/5 the price of the average grand piano.
> If the keyboard was mass produced, it could be available
> for $1500 US and still provide a nice profit for whoever
> was making it.

When Harold Fortuin was in San Diego around November 1998,
I got a close-up look at his Clavette. I think it's a
great little microtonal keyboard.

Harold had a webpage about it, but I can't find it now.

Here's an old Brian McLaren posting with something about it:
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/future.html

-monz

Joseph L. Monzo Philadelphia monz@juno.com
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html
|"...I had broken thru the lattice barrier..."|
| - Erv Wilson |
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