Sherry and Fred,

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I've seen or heard of these other midi instruments too (so far): harp, accordion, bagpipe(!), bass, organ, and drum pads (essentially e-drums). I'd love to have a midi whistle - that could save me a lot of time entering melody lines!<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>The most amazing MIDI instrument I've heard is a MIDI violin. I heard one many years ago. The MIDI violin picks up not only the chromatic scale pitches, but also tones in between, rendered, I assume, as MIDI pitch bends. A violin is so expressive because it has continuous pitches. The performer was able to transform that via MIDI into different instrument sounds such as a saxaphone. A good saxphone player can do so much with pitch bends. The violin player was able to make an incredibly convincing sax sound-- probably much better than a MIDI keyboard player can do with a pitch bend wheel, although that can be pulled off quite well also. I keep telling myself that I need to hunt down some local MIDI violin players and listen to them for pleasure.

Cheers
-- Mark