[LAU] [OT] Midi pedal board

[Lee Revell]

On Dec 6, 2007 7:01 PM, Ken Restivo <ken at restivo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:08:53PM -0400, Gregory Anderson wrote:
> > People writing about pedalboards reminded me of a little project I was
> > planning to get working on.  I bought a single octave pedalboard off of
> > ebay a few months ago.  It is off of a hammond organ.  I want to make it
> > into a midi controller so that it is unable.  I don't really know where
> > to start though.  Does anybody know of a good resource of the subject.
>
> Maybe get a cheap MIDI or USB keyboard with broken keys, and take it apart, and just wire the keyboard keys up to the pedal keys?
>

A colleague of mine who builds digital organs professionally did
something similar, except he didn't take apart the USB MIDI device -
he built a pedal board out of wood and connected the pedals to the
keys using string and eye bolts.  Very impressive - it reminded me of
the scene in Goonies where Data has to play the bone organ to escape
;-)

Lee