This Expensive Rubber Mat Could Be The Synth Of The Future

[Swilly]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261085418/this-expensive-rubber-mat-could-be-the-synth-of-the-future"]NPR link[/URL]

[quote=NPR]Consider the piano: Invented sometime in the late 17th century, the instrument has been through several iterations in its centuries-old life. For example, the type of piano on which Bach or Mozart wrote looked and sounded very different from the piano we know today.

Now, an American inventor named Roland Lamb is trying to take the instrument another step further, having developed a fondness for the piano at an early age.

"I grew up in rural New Hampshire," Lamb says. "I was home-schooled. So the only interesting things in the house were books and the piano."

Lamb says that experience left him with a nagging desire to get more out of the instrument.[/quote]

Accompanying video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruz4ST0HlXg[/media]

[draugur]

This looks and sounds awesome.

[I AM THE LAW]

[QUOTE=draugur;43530632]This looks and sounds awesome.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like it could play the entire soundtrack to this

[video=youtube;eapZ9BWyt78]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapZ9BWyt78&feature=c4-overview&list=UUd08tbQKO3RD1ApPjz36B-g[/video]

[Killer900]

Sounds like Mass Effect 1 music...soothing..

the first part anyway

[Patrick]

$3000-$4500 isn't that expensive for what this does, it's amazing, if I had the money I would definitely buy one.

[Diago21]

Wow amazing, I really want one now.

[editline]14th January 2014[/editline]

Holy nuts these are expensive and are only going to get more expensive.

[SyntheticGod]

Wish I had the money for one.

[Zonesylvania]

As an avid player of the keyboard (and piano when I can manage it) this is awesome.

I might find myself shelling out for this.

[Hoffa1337]

Can't replace the feeling of heavy wooden keys with rubber.. I need the weight in the keys to play with feeling, whenever I play on a plastic keyboard it just feels off.

[zakededodead]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAAVs8wqVUA]18 minute version[/url]

[Curls]

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and more importantly

[video=youtube;2uSOzrrI3fM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSOzrrI3fM[/video]