The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118457   Message #2560756
Posted By: Darowyn
08-Feb-09 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: MIDI Instrument Voices: A Brave New World!
Subject: RE: A Brave New World!
I disagree, and you are factually wrong on two of them.
The Yamaha wind controller is not a Midi Saxophone, it's a device to allow woodwind players to control a synthesiser with a control system which they are familiar with.
The Violin is simply a cutaway, solid body electric violin- and they sound superb.
My hat is off to the creators of the Midi-enabled concertina- Mr Wheatstone would have loved it, as one innovator to another. You will be able to play Hammond Organ licks without having to carry a ton of equipment (only slight exaggeration)
Imagine a bagpipe with no intonation problems, with drones that stay on pitch and with the choice of Equal temperament or just intonation and the option of sounding like Scottish War Pipes, Northumbrian or Catalan small pipes- you've got it!
You are an old luddite- that's all.
Get with it man!
Cheers
Dave