It's not your grandfather's clavier

[Fred Ming]

Check out the Hyperkeys® 3-dimensional musical keyboard demos

www.hyperkeys.com

image copyright 2012 by Perfect Fretworks

[Abraham]

~ Price: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

No words for such a statement. I wonder how Jordan Rudess could even get involved... I'd love to see any of the big brands stealing this design for all of us whose can't afford this at the moment. Btw it seems they can't afford a decent website either.

[Abraham]

Please notice this forum is about vintage instruments, about 99% of fellows around would probably prefer "our grandfather's clavier" over this invention... anyway welcome and thanx for posting.

[onthegreenline]

I think we're missing the point. That website was obviously designed, built, and hosted on a Rhodes MK III EK-10. Right?

[David Aubke]

Interesting device. It doesn't strike me as terribly out-of-place in an Electric Piano Forum.

The website seems intentionally obtuse. What's with the picture of the guy's glasses?

[pianotuner steveo]

Yeah, I am intrigued and would love to learn more, but the website is ridiculous.

I want to know how much it is, their answer is stupid....

[AFeastOfFriends]

It looks neat and all, but the website just leaves me overall confused as to what it is and does.

[Abraham]

Its just a MIDI controller, an electronic device that can play sounds out of a computer or any other MIDI capable equipment. It doesn't have its own sounds but the ones you program in your synth/computer/sampler/whatever, being the results variable depending of the gear you choose to connect.

The only thing that's unique and interesting, you can bend the pitch of the sounds simply by moving the keys while pressed, just like on a guitar fretboard. Its cool but still needs to be attached to a computer.

Im just complaining about the treatment we get on that stupid website. They may have great ideas but a weird stupid sense of humor. They are just NERDS with a great product but with some behavior disorder. Also I just wanted to state that there's nothing wrong with "our grandfather's clavier"

[David Aubke]

Apparently it costs $50,001.00.

[The Real MC]

That controller was introduced at least twenty years ago in Keyboard magazine.  I still have that issue.

[AFeastOfFriends]

I got the idea it was a controller, but what I was more of getting at was that if you were unfamiliar with it, you wouldn't really be able to get a clear picture of what it was from their site.

Not to mention the response to the guy's email about not listing a price.

[Tim Hodges]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjX7W37Veg

$8000

and $1500 for a case, ouch!

[David Aubke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsjX7W37Veg

Blue Bossa!

[Abraham]

Yeah, new concept... Ondes Martenot had pitch bending on keys back in 1928, also the ondioline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot

[Fred Ming]

Yeah, new concept... Ondes Martenot had pitch bending on keys back in 1928, also the ondioline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot

U.S Pat. no. 1,914,831 Maurice Martenot (1933)

"What I claim is:

   1. A keyboard for electrical musical instruments
adapted to produce variations such as vibrato and glissando
of sounds by means of a controlled electrical circuit,
including the combination, with a stationary frame,
of a movable support shiftably supported upon said frame,
depressible keys upon said movable support, and means for
controlling said circuit comprising an electrical control
device in said circuit provided with a movable control
member which responds in movement to said movable support."

Only good things to say about Martenot!

[Europanaut]

Yeah, new concept... Ondes Martenot had pitch bending on keys back in 1928, also the ondioline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot

As do my Yamaha Electones Dk40c, D80, and D85. (Many Electones had this excellent feature.)

[Fred Ming]

"As do my Yamaha Electones Dk40c, D80, and D85. (Many Electones had this excellent feature.) "

Good stuff, but side-to-side. Inherently not polyphonic at the finger level.