A proper portable piano keyboard
posted by siliconglen on 20 November 2007 23:47
Problem context :
I travel a lot and would appreciate being able to take a piano keyboard with me to practice not only the piano but singing, scales practice and so on.
Portable keyboards fall into two categories. Small keyboards with movable keys and roll up keyboards with flat rubber keys. Both of these have significant problems, which this solution seeks to address.
Proposed Solution :
The roll up keyboard is highly portable, but lacks a true piano feel and achieving velocity sensitivity is difficult. The conventional keyboard addresses both of these issues but is too wide to fit in an on flight travel bag.
The solution is fairly simple. Simply have a conventional keyboard but hinged in several places so that it concertinas up. So an 8 octave piano keyboard could maybe fold into 4 sections of 2 octaves each and then fit comfortably into an on flight bag, laptop carrying bag and so on. Now you can carry your laptop and your MIDI keyboard on board at the same time.
Seems an easy enough solution to me.
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