[Noisebridge-discuss] Getting a piano for NB

[Brian Molnar]

Or perhaps we could get a Hammond tonewheel organ. Perhaps not a B3, since
they're way the hell expensive, but I've seen M100s go for free on
Craigslist (having got a free M100 myself via C/L). Obviously a whole
different beast all together, but man do those puppies sound awesome. Plus,
a fun fixer-upper project if the organ needs some maintenance.

Also, it's fun to build your own Leslie speaker cabinets. (For when you're
not using headphones)

- Brian

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
> wrote:
> > What other ideas can we come up with?
>
> I don't know if one can actually do this without screwing the
> acoustics, but it might be possible to rig it to be totally
> soundproofed, with a mic inside attached to a headphone jack.
>
> It's overcomplicated and might not work, but it'd let someone play
> without bothering people.
>
> Or there's always the 'gut the thing entirely and turn it into an
> electric piano' option. Electric guitars, at least, are very quiet
> when not amped.
>
> Possible ways to do this (mind, I have zero knowledge of this stuff,
> so I'm just speculating):
> * a la electric guitar: real strings, no soundboard/resonance,
> ?magnetic pickup to sense vibration, dump that to magic software
> * pressure sensor hit by the hammer
> * accelerometer on the hammer or the key itself
>
> My guess is that it'd take a lot of work though, and I have no
> knowledge of how to do it.
>
> Someone on IRC linked to a guy who did exactly this. I've lost the
> link though. It had no details of how it was done, just a demo video
> and a comment that it took ~250 hours of work. (It was more blingy
> than it would need to be though; dunno how much of the time was on
> that.) He might be a good person to ask.
>
> - Sai
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