Electronic music pioneer Bob Moog left behind an unfinished invention when he died last year at age 71. The "Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive Keyboard" now sits in the New Jersey home of longtime Moog collaborator John Eaton, just waiting for the right technically proficient volunteer to complete it and hook it up:
"It's very difficult to play. But an instrument should be difficult to play. That's the only way to master musical materials, by overcoming these difficulties," says Eaton, 70, surrounded in his cramped attic studio by upright pianos, ancient computers and programs and scores from his 20 operas. What is unique — and challenging — about the Eaton-Moog keyboard is how many ways each key can be programmed to respond. How far you depress a key matters. The actual area covered by your finger changes the sound. Sliding your finger across a key's length or width can approximate, say, a vibrato effect on a violin string. How hard you push a depressed key matters, too.
Eaton jokingly dubs this keyboard the "Can't-Resist-A-Sizer." How does it sound? Think theremin — from quavering soundtracks of cheesy sci-fi movies — crossed with a baseball organ. Throw in some psychedelic chemicals, and you begin to get the idea.
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