[ddots-l] Re: Accessible keyboards?

  • From: "Jason D." <Doorish_jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:56:13 -0600

Who has his email address?
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:01 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Accessible keyboards?


I may be teaching granny how to suck eggs here, but what
about trying to enlist the help of a few Internationally
well known musicians?  A few words from the likes Stevie
Wonder, for example, can often work miracles.

Then again.........

Just a thought!

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of omar
binno 
Sent: 24 November 2005 11:50
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Accessible keyboards?

Sean:

I agree with you that it may be hard to get these
companies
to pay attention to us, but if we focus our efforts on one 

and succeed, it may open doors with others as well. Other
companies could follow suit to the company we can get to
initiate this stuff. Again, we might consider starting
with
Yamaha, since there is already accessibility ease for us
with 
their Motif synths.

--- "Sean A. Cummins" <Sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> WHOA! GANG! Please stop and think about what you are
asking for! 
>
>
>
> I am all for asking companies to help, but let's not
corner 
ourselves
> into only one answer.
>
>
>
> True accessibility is opening the doors to many options
and 
not just
> one.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I own many
different
> types of Microphones and many different types of guitars
and other
> instruments RIGHT?! So why would I want to have only
one keyboard
> company making an accessible keyboard. OH, I know, we
can 
write all
> of them, but we'll be lucky if one even gives such a
small market a
> second thought. Rather, we need to approach an
individual or 
> individuals that can get us access to all of the MIDI
devices that are
> all ready passing data free from one to the other.
>
>
>
> I had been pioneering a MIDI music system for the blind
way back in
> the early eighties, and the best thing to have ever
happen to the
> industry was the development of the MIDI interface.
This 
happens to
> be one of the only industries that sat down and worked
out 
a standard
> by which all computer based instrument could exchange
data 
and control
> one another.  This data flow is our key to
accessibility! We just
> need to find the person and or persons that would
continue to bring 
> all of the concepts together.
>
>
>
> I would even venture to say that a foundation like the
Microsoft 
> Foundation would underwrite the development of the
technology if one
> were to organize and manage just such a project.
>
>
>
> Data is the key to freedom and not necessarily hardware.
>
>
>
> Give a man a fish. and he eats for a day!
>
> Teach a man to fish. and he eats for a lifetime!
>
>
>
> In my opinion, this is just what Dancing Dots has done
for us all
> ready! I propose that someone take up the cause of
finding Dancing 
> Dots the underwriters for their and our benefit!
>
>
>
> God bless you all this Thanksgiving!
>
>
>
> Sean A. Cummins
>
>
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