Shirley KnottFeb 22
This is what I've been obsessed with for the last few weeks. It's taken a while but I now have a working Haxocorder - a custom hacked Haxophone. I'm still refining but it's now a usable electronic wind instrument for a recorder player.
https://youtu.be/C5GVVqOo5GA
Building a Haxophone pt 3 - the first Haxocorder in the world!

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@shieladixon This is amazing! I want one!

Partly because it's just very cool in itself. But also because, some years ago, I made a MIDI glockenspiel-playing robot, and the idea of playing that using a recorder controller somehow amuses me :)

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Show threadShirley KnottFeb 23
@mal3aby I would love to make a glockenspiel robot. I think space is the issue with that one for me. Did you blog about it?
Show threadmal3abyFeb 23

@shieladixon Haha yeah, it does take up a fair amount of space! For that reason it spends most of its time tucked away in a cupboard in the loft.

I have not blogged about it, but I'm in the process of setting up a blog, and will probably post about it at some point...

Show threadShirley KnottFeb 23
@mal3aby Controlling a glock with a wind instrument is a funny idea. It does feel very odd to use this with inappropriate patches like piano or whatever.
Show threadmal3abyFeb 23

@shieladixon Yeah, I imagine that's a lot of fun :)

Is that a flugel horn in the background of your video?

Show threadShirley KnottFeb 23
@mal3aby Yes, there's a flugel and a cornet there. I'm a brass player first, but I had an accident involving my top lip and front teeth and don't have the range and stamina any more. I took up recorder at that point.
Show threadmal3abyFeb 24
@shieladixon Ah, I thought I could see something else shiny there too! My wife plays cornet (very well); for a few years now I've been playing the baritone (badly), in part because I was accompanying her to so many gigs I thought I might as well join in!
Show threadShirley KnottFeb 25
@mal3aby There are things I really miss about brass banding. My cornet is a round-stamp Sovereign, from the serial number, made in 1976. A design never improved upon! It's shiny only after being polished. That's the trouble with silver plate.
The 3-valve fingering system is the one I'm most familiar with and I've seriously thought about implementing in the haxophone, but it would rely on either breath pressure or maybe a bite sensor to select register (C to G to C to E to G etc) but I think that's going to end up being quite sketchy in the upper registers and difficult to play.
Show threadmal3abyFeb 26

@shieladixon Nice! The baritone I play (loaned from band, not mine) is a Sovereign; not a round stamp but it's still lovely to play. I also have a baritone (cheap off ebay) that must be about 100 years old, but still plays nicely.

Yeah, I've also sometimes thought about making a brass-like controller - but I equally don't have a good solution for the register selection! I guess it would take some experimentation... which could be a lot of fun, but I don't have any time for it right now, alas.