Let me start this post by deciding that historical context is not very important.
If you have an EWI at hand, please look at the keys on the unit. If you don't have an EWI at hand, please search for an image. Oh, don't worry if you see someone with a wide forehead or green hair. He is a human being who has made great achievements in the wind synthesizer field in Japan, but let's forget about him for now. Now, I want you to pay attention to the keys held down by the left and right index, middle, and ring fingers. Officially, these are called note keys, and they are named K1 (skipping one), K3, K4, K7, K8, and K9, starting from the top (left hand), and moving to the right hand. The person who actually picked up the instrument now must have traced some kind of scale or phrase in his or her hands. It is a habit of the player, just like a pianist who puts both hands on the top board and starts to draw something when he gets on the table. Guitarists and bassists air-play when they grasp a train railing with their left hand, drummers when they hold chopsticks, cajon players when they sit on a chair, violinists when they hold a telephone between their face and neck, and horn players and oboe players when they go bald. It has always been so. Yukio Aoshima decided so in the Diet. That's the way it should be.
Now, the note key. The center of the key is round and indented. It looks like a butterfly shell on the key of a saxophone, for example. The design is as if to say, "You can put your finger here, right? And you will put your fingers there as if you are attracted to it. It is a very natural action. It is not too much to say that it is beautiful. The world is like that. Everything should be like this. You think so, too. I understand.
As a side note, Michael Brecker, the saxophone giant, played with his fingers outstretched, not with his right hand on the butterfly shell. I have never heard that he had longer fingers than others or that he had difficulty bending his joints, so he must have had some reason for doing so. I'll leave my silly speculation on that for another time.
Now, let's get back to the story, but instead of EWI, let's talk about NuRAD or NuEVI.
If you have a NuRAD or NuEVI at hand, please look at the keys on the unit. If you don't have a NuRAD or NuEVI at hand, please search for a picture. Oh, don't worry if you see a person with a wide forehead or green hair. He is a human being who has made a great achievement in the wind synthesizer area in Japan, but let's forget about him. You are free to remember him later. You are also free to become a follower. However, antagonism is not good. It is not for you to dwell on it. It is a loss to look down on people and make fun of them. Do you want to be a cockroach?
Um, so, the rounded indented keys that were on EWI do not exist there. Everything, including the screw heads that hold the keys in place, is flat, with just a few rounded pattern-like grooves; they don't employ rounded indented keys like EWI did. Why?
All living things in this world are bound by something. Even creatures that are surrounded by nature and nurture their lives far away from the human world. Take cockroaches, for example. They appear in front of us as if they want to be sprayed with insecticide. It must be an instinctive binding action to end their life span with insecticide. Good. Then war.
However, Mr. Johan, the designers of NuRAD and NuEVI, were different.
Keys don't have to be hollow, do they?
That's great. By designing without being bound by providence, he brought about the surprise and discovery that "if you touch something here, you can get the sound you are looking for. We were liberated.
Then there was a thunderbolt!
"Praise the Hollow God!"
Its name is Rosette Washer. I think you can find them at home improvement stores. Of course, Monotaro on Amazon has more varieties, but that might be just my imagination. There are also various sizes. I think NuRAD's screws are M3, but it might be my imagination, but M3 washers are too small. It is really small. It might be my imagination, but M3 washers are really small and might stick in my fingers. So I bought M4 washers. And I replaced the key of the main unit with a rosette washer ... . I also put a plastic washer in the raised bottom because it would be too hard to do it directly. The index finger has no plastic washer, the middle finger has one plastic washer, and the ring finger has two plastic washers.
Now let's take a look. Yes, ta-dah!
Hmmm. There is still a stinging feeling on my finger, but I think I'll get used to it. I may not get used to it, but I'll take my chances.
In fact, I was so frustrated when the green-haired guy in the photo showed off his work, saying, "I like it, don't you? If you are not an ordinary craftsman, it is like getting lost in a different world where you don't know how to read the size of parts or what the standards are. It was really hard work. So, someone please make a set and sell it soon. To reduce the number of victims like me. Somebody, please! Quickly.
Next is Pinky Keys!
