Re: [Harp-L] Reedles MIDI accordions - why not harmonicas?

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Mr. Yerxa, I have been telling people to do this for like a year now.
THEY NEED TO.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The subject of a reedless MIDI harmonica that is breath-sensitive and could
> be played in any range or tuning has come up many times on the list over the
> years, with reference's to Walt Miller's Millioniser or to the uncompleted
> work of Ron Schille, who seems to have vanished.
>
> However, this is old news in the accordion world. I've witnessed accordion
> players onstage using a squeezebox pretty much as a MIDI "execution
> interface" much as you would a keyboard, but also using it to get a sound
> like that of a reall accordion. Roland makes a whole line of electronic
> reedless accordions, complete with the accordion equivalent of alternate
> tunings.
>
> Now a guy in Windsor, Ontario is doing the same thing for diatonic
> accordions, which are tuned almost exactly like diatonic harmonicas:
>
> http://www.johnsaccordionservice.com/
>
> It raises for me the question of why nobody is adapting this existing
> technology to harmonicas.
>
> Winslow
>
> Winslow Yerxa
>
> Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
>
>
>
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