Roger Linn works on a new musical interface to enhance the boundaries of  traditional music instruments.

This design uses a fingerboard grid consisting of 6 rows of 24 semitones each, similar to a guitar. In acknowledgement of my wife Ingrid’s contribution to the engineering, we like to refer to this note grid as the “InGRID”. :) It also has two thumb control strips, one on each side of the fingerboard, to be used for sustaining fingered notes after release, strumming, bowing, blowing or restriking, and also has a wind sensor for added expression. (Ignore the 4 long, thin bars on each side; they were to be used as separate palm-actuated sustain bars, but I’ve decided that the two thumb strips work better for this.)

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