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Article #8719Electronic Mouthpieces
From: Chris Palmer
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 18:54
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 18:54
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I am thinking about building an electronic instrument. Actually, it will be an input device for a computer music program that uses saxophone fingerings. I know that Casio makes a little MIDI sax and that there are several very high end machines, but I thought this could be a fun (and inexpensive) project, especially if I let the computer do the sound generation and maybe even MIDI encoding. The keys are going to be simple switches that will be encoded via TTL or CMOS logic and send in throught the parallel port of the computer (to leave the serial for MIDI (on an Amiga if you're interested)). My problem is the mouthpiece. What should I use? What I need is some kind of device that outputs a digital or analog signal proportional to the pressure of an airstream applied to it. The sensor should be cheap and immune to moisture and should respond to changes quickly. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- | Christopher M. Palmer # | / Intergraph Corporation # \ \ Internet: b14!abulafia!palmerc # / | UUCP : ...uunet!ingr!b14!abulafia!palmerc # |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!ingr!infonode!palmerc From: palmerc@infonode.ingr.com (Chris Palmer) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Electronic Mouthpieces Message-ID: <1990Dec3.185404.7641@infonode.ingr.com> Date: 3 Dec 90 18:54:04 GMT Reply-To: palmerc@infonode.UUCP (Chris Palmer) Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL Lines: 21