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Neat. I'd buy one for a couple hundred dollars...3950GBP!!!
Agreed. I'd buy one for $400, maybe, but for ~$5500? That's a bit too much. Also, while others on this thread seem to think it's very Star-Wars-y and ugly, I personally think it looks rather cool. Nothing wrong with the looks. Wonder how hard it would be to learn though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot
An instrument you've heard dozens of times. Also used by Varese, Messiaen and other 20th century composers
This isn't a single, new, interesting idea. It's more taking the old ideas and mashing them together.
It's like when you build an app without a single killer feature, and instead keep throwing in odds and ends.
I think it would be neater to focus on one or two of the new novel ideas here and really refine them.
What's that song they play? The beginning sounds really familiar but I can't place it.
I have a funny story surrounding the Eigenharp. A few nights ago I was having last minute doubts about the original name we had picked for our startup. At a certain point, while brainstorming new names with a Dutch/Vietnamese friend, I came up with Eigenlabs. A quick search on Google led me to a site where weird instruments were being sold. "Argh, it's already taken, oh well". Fast forward two days, and I find the ar…