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What do people think of this? It's certainly a very interesting looking instrument!...

Got no sound on my PC at the mo, but it certainly looks interesting

Eigenharp!

Anything eigenvalue related gets my vote

I think it is fabulous!

Something to look forward to when you get to a PC with sound Claudia

I remember reading an article about this new intrument a couple of weeks ago. I can't make up my mind as to whether or not I like this new instrument. It is certainly interesting but I'm not sure I like the sounds it produces. I need to listen to it more I think.....

It looks quite difficult to operate : and I'm not struck on the higher pitched sounds it produces. Certainly interesting though...

ditto !

As someone who has waited most of her life for middle-of-the-road popular music to include something other than guitars and percussion (I include keyboard in percussion), I really welcome this. OK, it's not going to replace the symphony orchestra, but more variety in band music would be so, so welcome. I am sick to death of electric guitars, guitars, guitars...

I don't see how it's so revolutionary to be honest, considering what you can do live with modern synths these days. I suppose the novelty is in the "all-in-one" functionality.

Also, a lot of the sounds remind me of the game loading music on the old Commodore 64 or Amiga (not a bad thing to me - I like the tune!)

I have to say what I've seen or heard so far is a bit naff. Maybe someone will eventually figure out what it's good for. At the moment it reminds me of the amplified jazz bassoon I heard at the IDRS Conference this year. Pointless. More electric guitars please.

This is a better example of the Eigenharp..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcVqJh0qEMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDjX4ZD1ysM...feature=related

Oh gosh yes, it does

I think the sound chip in the C64 was called the 'Sid' chip, and it was considered very revolutionary in its day

After doing an exam with eigenvalues in it this afternoon, I clicked on the link Barry posted wondering what it was!


I have to say I quite like it.

"the most revolutionary new musical instrument of the last 60 years"? i doubt if anyone will remember it a month from now. as a new interface to a keyboard it's interesting, but it's no more a new instrument than Yamaha's electric sax.

i am tempted to call it a "chromatic button synthesiser" ;-)

Nice instrument. Great players. Dull music, for the most part.

Time will tell. Oddly, reminds of the Chapman Stick.

And Roy, I couldn't disagree more about jazz bassoon. Check out Paul ???(wossisname) on Youtube ... blindin'

Does not compute... ???

Yamaha MIDI Wind Controller

Hrm, how odd. Does anyone actually buy these?

Why on earth not? If a wind player wants some sort of midi controller it's going to be a darn sight easier than learning keyboards (or eigenharp). I did see one demonstrated years ago when they came out and the are indeed very impressive.

Akai do one too http://www.ewi-evi.com/4000s.htm

That's pretty amazing! Music got a little repetitive though

The EWI is a very serious instrument - great potential, but hard to use effectively - a whole other way of thinking, I imagine, from the one person I know who plays it.

The thing abut the eigenharp appears to be its flexibility - the capacity to switch from ribbon controller to button control to percussives to mouthpiece. Maybe too many possibilities - sometimes a little limitation is a good thing.

Fair enough.. I was just thinking along the lines that most people doing MIDI sequencing are likely to want to use instruments with polyphony in their compositions so will typically use a keyboard for input. I guess it would work very well if, say, you had composed an accompaniment and wanted a wind player to record the main part for you.

EWI has limited polyphony, in that you can set it up to play harmonised lines - but not true polyphony involving independent parts, clearly.

Ah, I wasn't really thinking of sequencing with respect to creating compositions. More using MIDI to trigger synths, etc. in a live situation.