Perpetually Distracted
15 Jun. 2008
I'm trying to bone up on some tech stuff today and keep getting distracted by other much more sparkly interests. Girls. Building ridiculous and unworkable contraptions. Naps. Maybe if I actually just put some of this stuff down, I can get back to the task at hand (Drupal, specifically). Hell, that's why I created the scratchpad in the first place.
Unworkable contraption #8024:
I was tempted recently to learn to play the concertina I've had lying around (in response to the Hootenanny, actually, which I recall was the subject of my last ancient post). I find the fingering on the thing irritating and haven't really gotten much of anywhere at all with it. Contraption #8024 is an upright reed and bellow instrument (yes...another one - S., I promise you I will finish yours one day...I still have the parts and plans and everything) that uses a keyboard layout for the fingering. Perhaps an actual old converted typewriter? The rods from inside pull away from a faceplate to draw air through the reeds? I could compose fakebooks for this that corresponded to the actual keys....the fingering of which I can already do in my sleep. Music could just be written out as 'caiu yenlduand cnklijdiucu' Bellows operated by foot. Or, half keyboard operation - one hand fingers, one hand pulls bellows.