Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!unc!ericksen From: ericksen@unc.UUCP (James P. Ericksen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: What is a Lyricon? Message-ID: <6765@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 22:28:57 EST Article-I.D.: unc.6765 Posted: Wed Feb 15 22:28:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:53:59 EST References: <958@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 11 A Lyricon is a model of music synthesizer controlled not by a keyboard but by a woodwind-styled device --- note selection is controlled by fingering combinations similar to those on a recorder, and timbre and "pitch bend" are controlled by lip pressure. The Lyricon appeared about ten years ago, but never caught on --- i haven't heard of anyone using one for many years. I don't know if they're still being made, though you could check the ads in Downbeat. -- Jim Ericksen UNC Chapel Hill