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found a piano keyboard in the garbage, right next to a box of interesting but used footware.

so it gets a new life:

…presenting: “the mouse organ”

for various reasons it should actually be called the “baby-seal organ”, for this version pictured above. the keys were to control some VCO type devices. keyboard was split into three sections, each with a series of resistors. it worked but didn’t get finished.
back of an old cassette deck makes for a pretty decent control pannel.

it’s back to the drawingboard for now though.

there’s a few stories behind this thing. suffice to say it was wired worng, looked like this:

and sounded like this
and this

an earlier attempt, also wired wrong, looked like this:

and sounded like this

circuit was an attempt to build the design from here: http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH.html
but i got the pin numbers of the ic wrong. hopefully i can recreate what i did with that in the future (not sure if the picture really tells the story at that point or not) … i jotted some notes down but who know where those might be.