{"items": [{"author": "Aaron", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967530314372", "anchor": "fb-967530314372", "service": "fb", "text": "Just spitballing here; it would be hard to get this to work really well, but it would be an all-acoustic sound:
I've seen a ukulele with autoharp-style chord buttons on the fingerboard. Press a button and inside the mechanism the chord is fretted by artificial \"fingers\". Maybe you could rig up a mandolin fingerboard with electronically actuated \"fingers\".
http://www.chordmaster.org/", "timestamp": "1541972418"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967530314372&reply_comment_id=967553188532", "anchor": "fb-967530314372_967553188532", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Aaron what I want is simpler than that's designed for in some ways, be and much harder in others. I'd be happy with a simple widget that let me just choose a fret and effectively bar it up to that point. But I also want to be able to evenly switch between a muted an unmuted sound. Though maybe I could have a guitar tuned xxxDGD with the low three strings permanently muted and the high three strings replaced with three more low ones in a drop-d ish tuning. Then I could choose to play muted or not by varying where I struck. Maybe the fretting could be with servos, controlled via midi with the piano?", "timestamp": "1541981801"}, {"author": "Bob", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967543223502", "anchor": "fb-967543223502", "service": "fb", "text": "less is more", "timestamp": "1541978053"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967543223502&reply_comment_id=967553328252", "anchor": "fb-967543223502_967553328252", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Bob probably half the time were just playing as a fiddle/piano duo, but it's nice to be able to add things when that's the feeling we're going for", "timestamp": "1541981853"}, {"author": "Don", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967549720482", "anchor": "fb-967549720482", "service": "fb", "text": "Probably not directly in line with your request but are you aware of Martin's work? He seems to be working on the same idea of multiplying a single musician's sound by creating unique instruments - the most known being this one and it's successor but there are several others on a smaller scale. https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q Warning: deep rabbit hole of content...", "timestamp": "1541979633"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967549720482&reply_comment_id=967552699512", "anchor": "fb-967549720482_967552699512", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Don I'd seen the marble machine. That's pretty different from the direction I'm thinking: that's much closer to a player piano in that it plays a preconfigured melody. Or maybe it's more like a DJ bringing pre-prepared loops in and out. I want to keep every sound triggered in the moment to keep full control over that aspect of the performance.", "timestamp": "1541981483"}, {"author": "Don", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967549720482&reply_comment_id=967554800302", "anchor": "fb-967549720482_967554800302", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Yep, that's just the most famous example. I meant to look at his other stuff like the modulin which is more in line with your desire re: live control though it's more of a synthesizer sound.", "timestamp": "1541982856"}, {"author": "Don", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967549720482&reply_comment_id=967554969962", "anchor": "fb-967549720482_967554969962", "service": "fb", "text": "→ https://youtu.be/MUdWeBYe3GY", "timestamp": "1541982931"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967549720482&reply_comment_id=967564680502", "anchor": "fb-967549720482_967564680502", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Don that looks like a standard ribbon controller synthesizer, shoulder mounted in violinish manner. I'm not that interested in ribbon controllers: the kind of information they handle (timing, position, pressure) is less well suited for a rhythm instrument and not good enough for dance melodies.", "timestamp": "1541986543"}, {"author": "Ruthan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967580992812", "anchor": "fb-967580992812", "service": "fb", "text": "Kevin i feel like you need to see this", "timestamp": "1541993711"}, {"author": "Carl", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967621396842", "anchor": "fb-967621396842", "service": "fb", "text": "If your strummer/scratcher were foot actuated and where it scratched was controlled by side-to-side knee-location... Your heel could stay stationary.", "timestamp": "1542035233"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/967521806422?comment_id=967621396842&reply_comment_id=967624780062", "anchor": "fb-967621396842_967624780062", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Carl my foot doesn't really have the agility for this", "timestamp": "1542036891"}]}