On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:58:47AM -0500, Jon B wrote: > i don't know why they don't make guitars (i assume this is for guitar) > with a small current on each string and calculate the note from which > frets and strings are making electrical contact. you couldn't do > vibrato, but that would be a great way to input exact notes. but then > you could combine that with the pitch and envelope recognition to get > more of the timbre of the instrument. it would just give a definite > value for the pitch. I believe there was a company that did that a long time ago. I think the company was from Sweden, and I'm not sure, but I think the name of the company was Hagstrom, or something like that. I think it was before the days of MIDI, but I recall seeing a guy playing the organ on one, using a two handed technique like Eddie Van Halen, but without the actual hammer-ons and pull-offs, using glissandos and everything. It was before the days of miniaturization, and that guitar was literally filled with electronics. Chuck