{"items": [{"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/955410602372?comment_id=955412049472", "anchor": "fb-955412049472", "service": "fb", "text": "Is there a reason you didn\u2019t try having all the octaves for one instrument in one half, and all the octaves for the other in the other half?", "timestamp": "1534683049"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/955410602372?comment_id=955412049472&reply_comment_id=955414140282", "anchor": "fb-955412049472_955414140282", "service": "fb", "text": "→ This would make them be pretty far apart, making it hard for one hand to reach notes from both instruments at the same time.", "timestamp": "1534684121"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/955410602372?comment_id=955412049472&reply_comment_id=955425502512", "anchor": "fb-955412049472_955425502512", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Ah, I see \u2014 I was imagining that you could just use one hand for each instrument, but I\u2019m assuming from this that you\u2019re already using the other hand for something else.", "timestamp": "1534691048"}, {"author": "Aaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/955410602372?comment_id=955523346432", "anchor": "fb-955523346432", "service": "fb", "text": "I play organ-style bass pedals and I usually set the monophonic synth they control at its maximum release time so I can just tap the pedal and the note keeps going until I play the next one. (This is particularly useful since I play standing up so I don't have full use of both feet like an organ player does.)
I've seen https://www.jefftk.com/p/footboard-bass and I daydream about doing my own custom setup like this but I don't know if I'll ever have enough round tuits.", "timestamp": "1534734160"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/955410602372?comment_id=955523346432&reply_comment_id=955555342312", "anchor": "fb-955523346432_955555342312", "service": "fb", "text": "→ For what it's worth my footboard bass didn't turn out to work very well. I think the problem was not enough vibration isolation. The building style in https://www.jefftk.com/p/footboard-v2 would probably help.", "timestamp": "1534764562"}, {"author": "Brian", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114156500057804356924", "anchor": "gp-1534782942504", "service": "gp", "text": "How do you like Wicki-Hayden layout?", "timestamp": 1534782942}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1534794013698", "service": "gp", "text": "@Brian\n A lot! Within a week I was faster playing melody on wicki-hayden than I was on a regular piano keyboard, and I've been playing around with pianos since I was a kid", "timestamp": 1534794013}, {"author": "Brian", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114156500057804356924", "anchor": "gp-1534797790473", "service": "gp", "text": "I wish these were easier to try out. I guess there used to be an Android app?\n
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\nI bought a melodica which is great fun. There is a button version called an accordina, but it's a hand-made instrument so it's very expensive.", "timestamp": 1534797790}]}