Leon invents the Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee

So, there's this guy called Leon Gruenbaum from New York. He's 40, he's in a band called Math Camp, and he's just re-invented the keyboard. He's taken one of those ergonomic PC keyboards and messed with it (and spray painted it) so that it's a MIDI keyboard. Rather than playing notes, each key changes the pitch of the existing note. So... press one key and it might jump up two notes in a scale. Another key might make it jump down three notes. Press loads of keys really fast, and you get very convincing widdly-widdly guitar solos, as this (53mb) video demonstrates. Oh yes, the keyboard is called: 'Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee'. Selected quote from Marvin Minsky? "Probably does everything except what you want it to do." (Thanks Mikey!)


Comments:
Cheater! Why dont you learn how to wank like the rest of us! Although it is a pretty impressive invention....
 
Someone should be selling this! Now any geek can be an instant Rachmaninov!

At least I want one...
 
Hell yes. This thing is brilliant. I like to intuitively (spontaneously as opposed to sequenced) play and compose music, but I don't like practicing different scales and keys.

Problem solved. Wow.
 
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