fred v Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 I dreamed that someone showed me a digital concertina. There was no bellows but just a rocking hinge to simulate bellows action. The finger board was a glass rectangle with touch area buttons. They could be turned 90 degrees to change it from an English to an Anglo. I actually think it could be done albeit a little weird. How about that??!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Coles Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Your brain must have been subconsciously recalling a look at the products of Michael Eskin here. 😎 Ken 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPKarl Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Ken, That is some crazy modern world stuff right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Thorne Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Many years ago(approx 40) I had a dream where I had "Invented" and built a "Dobro" concertina. Basically I think it was like normal except that it had thin metal baffles, attached in one palce,centrally, so they would resonate with the reeds. Probably a good job I woke up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Hillman Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 16 hours ago, fred v said: [...] There was no bellows but just a rocking hinge to simulate bellows action. [...] This part sounds like the "Striso" duet prototype (I think its manuals are fixed, but it's easy to see how the design could accommodate a rocking hinge for Anglo players): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schulteis Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Funny thing, I finally ordered the custom PCBs for my next iteration of MIDI concertina this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred v Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 Wow the I pad melodian was great and so was the other one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Mitchell Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Something like this? https://youtu.be/pAvdKVcUVAs No hinge but a strain gauge between the two ends. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred v Posted May 20 Author Share Posted May 20 What if it had something like a rubber hose connecting the two sides? That would give you the feeling of a bellows plus the strain gauge detecting the bending of the hose!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mellish Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 On 5/20/2023 at 1:39 PM, fred v said: What if it had something like a rubber hose connecting the two sides? That would give you the feeling of a bellows plus the strain gauge detecting the bending of the hose!! On my (still essentially proof-of-concept rather than a mature design) MIDI concertina, I have tried several arrangements in seeking the right amount of flexibility between the ends. Real bellows give a fair amount of flexibility about axes through the plane of each end but very little about an axis from one end to the other. The best arrangement that I have found so far uses a short piece from a wire coat hanger, bent into a U shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 1 hour ago, Richard Mellish said: The best arrangement that I have found so far uses a short piece from a wire coat hanger, bent into a U shape. What are you using for a sensor? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Mellish Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 4 hours ago, Don Taylor said: What are you using for a sensor? I'm not sure whether it should be called a strain gauge or a load cell. Anyway one of these https://tinyurl.com/2t6txzpd . Then a quad op-amp and a few transistors to provide polarity output (needed for a Anglo keyboard) and an analogue voltage to control amplitude. I can provide more info if desired, but perhaps on a different thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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