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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Look Ma, no hands.
Message-ID: <4370@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 19:41:20 GMT
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>	No, but I've sometimes wondered is various musical instruments
>	might work.  Something like an electric guitar or an organ
>	could provide a good to excellent chord keyboard, but it would
>	be challenging to make normal input sound good.  :-)

I hate practicing, and this is about the only way I could make myself
exercise the piano skills I spent years learning.  I've been thinking
hard about doing a MIDI keyboard->ASCII mapping.

Also, I picked up a Casio Digital Saxophone, basically a musical toy
with MIDI out.  It can send four octaves, and requires a much more
wrist-friendly position than keyboards do.  A vertical pipe that you
hold in front of you may be the future of Carpal-Tunnel-free computing :-)

Lance Norskog