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In article <Jun.17.17.03.45.1988.8054@athos.rutgers.edu> gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>> How about foot pedals?  Namely shift, cntrl, ESC (for EMACS), and return.

>I've heard that footmice and other attempts at trying to get one's
>feet to convey spatial information failed out the wazoo.  However, ask
>a keyboard player or a rock guitarist how much control one has over
>sets of footpedals...  It's not the same as driving, but driving does
>demonstrate to non-musicians that good control is possible.

Feet seem to be good at two things; expressing intensity (as with an
accelerator) or for discrete switching (as with guitar controls). Organists
can do the latter at astonishing speed. Alkan wrote a four-voice fugue for one
pair of feet that he could perform on a a piano modified with a pedalboard.

How about using pressure to do menu selections or control things like font size
and typestyle? Your neighbours below might start complaining when you get to
48-point bold shadow underline, though...

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