As some of you guys may know, I’ve been working to sell some MIDI keyboards I designed. The model is called the TS41 and you can read more about it here. As of writing this, I’ve sold 5 of them, so I consider this operation to be at least semi-successful. I’m considering making another batch of TS41s, and then forming an LLC for my music gear, including any MIDI keyboard models and acoustic instruments I sell in the future. If I do that, I’ll probably set up a website just for my business with an online storefront.
Over the past 2 weeks or so, I’ve spent a substantial amount of my time going back and forth with people via email who wanted to buy a TS41 probably after looking at my promo video for them and making multiple trips to the post office and UPS store to drop off the keyboards and ask questions about shipping them.
I have some other MIDI keyboard designs in the works at the moment as well. One will be in a square layout and be velocity-sensitive with RGB LEDs (think square Lumatone but cheaper). I plan to use Hall-effect computer keyboard switches for the keys in this one. The others will be modified Halberstadt (“normal” piano layout) designs for 19 and 22 notes per octave.
Things will probably move a bit slower relating to all this for the next several months since my fall university classes are about to start and I’ll be busy with school work and my work-study job, but not come to a complete halt either.
And if you want a TS41 of your own, feel free to write me an email to the address given in the About section of my website.