From jackoverfull@gmail.com Wed Mar 14 10:51:29 2012
Subject:Re: Watch "Vb3 controller" on YouTube

Yup, my car costed me much less than 10000!
Right, of course it would not fit an A100…Nor an M100, actually!

Il giorno 14/mar/2012, alle ore 17.37, sysricky@ymail.com ha scritto:

> Yes totally agree Bruce.
>
> Sorry for the "tone" of post but i met a lot of people (purist) that told me to buy a real hammond ..
> "Don't waste your time to build a clone.."
> This attitude hurt me so much because if I have a possibility to buy an hammond , I do!
> Here in Italy a b3 + 145(122 ..) is around 10000 euros... like to buy a new car!
> so, you know..
> After that there is a people passionate to the our (italian)clones.
> Same problem for me 3000 euros.
> So i decided to build & construct a clone "money driven"
> unfortunately there are so few alternatives that cost resonably (swell keyb,drawbars like potentiometers,buttons ..) and how can i put all toghether and pull out a good sound ???
>
> 2 pcr + wood + old home pc + passion + beer + overnight + wife angry + brother jack mcduff in phones .... that's all
>
> Bobby is real cool this controller BTW is very difficult to build.
> I'll save you to all kind of problem you may encounter.
>
> ah, sorry for my bad english .. hoping the sense is understood
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Wahler wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Let's all step back a little and take a breath ...
> >
> > Bobby, your PhotoShop skills are indeed great. The controller that you
> > designed would be fantastic. And it would also require at least $100K
> > worth of plastic tooling costs, maybe even twice that much. Outside of
> > the organ world, very few players even consider the idea of a
> > dual-manual keyboard. (Anybody even *remember* the Prophet-10?) So,
> > we're back to the same old problem: how does one create a complicated
> > interface for a product that has a small market?
> >
> > Making a one-off version for personal needs isn't the same as making
> > them for mass-production. Even Ricky's design -- which while not
> > perfect, is really clever -- would be difficult to mass-produce at a
> > reasonable profit. I would bet that none of the dual-manual clones in
> > recent memory -- BX-3, VK-77/VK-88, Key5, XK System, KeyB Duo,
> > Hamichord, etc. -- has ever sold more than 1,500 units; some of them
> > never sold half that many. There just aren't that many dual-manual
> > players out there. This makes it difficult to tool up to mass-produce
> > any design, let alone a 'perfect' one.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -BW
> >
> > Bruce Wahler
> > Ashby Solutions.com^(TM)
> > bw@...
> > http://music.ashbysolutions.com
> > 877.55.ASHBY (877.552.7429)
> >
> > On 3/14/2012 10:19 AM, Bobby Simons wrote:
> > > On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:30 AM, sysricky@... wrote: