Subject: Re: [LAU] [OT] Midi pedal board

From: Gregory Anderson <gymjb@...> · Date: Friday, December 7, 2007 - 2:05 pm

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:11 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

quoted text> On Dec 6, 2007 7:01 PM, Ken Restivo  wrote:

> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:08:53PM -0400, Gregory Anderson wrote:

> > > People writing about pedalboards reminded me of a little project I

> was

> > > planning to get working on.  I bought a single octave pedalboard

> off of

> > > ebay a few months ago.  It is off of a hammond organ.  I want to

> make it

> > > into a midi controller so that it is unable.  I don't really know

> where

> > > to start though.  Does anybody know of a good resource of the

> subject.

> >

> > Maybe get a cheap MIDI or USB keyboard with broken keys, and take it

> apart, and just wire the keyboard keys up to the pedal keys?

> >

>

> A colleague of mine who builds digital organs professionally did

> something similar, except he didn't take apart the USB MIDI device -

> he built a pedal board out of wood and connected the pedals to the

> keys using string and eye bolts.  Very impressive - it reminded me of

> the scene in Goonies where Data has to play the bone organ to escape

> ;-)

>

> Lee
This is the way I have been leaning.  I think it will be the easiest

way.
Greg.
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