It’s a gigantic piano keyboard sculptured from perfectly proportioned oversized foam piano keys. They snap together to form one, two, even three full chromatic octaves! Step on any key and play a perfectly formed, in tune note. Play melodies, chords, songs with one student or the whole class. It’s fun, yet educational. It’s an acoustic teaching tool that’s a blast to use.

If you are looking for compact sized MIDI interface that compatible with Windows 2000,XP and Mac OSX, ESI has the answer with the MIDI Mate, a tiny, 16 channel 1-in, 1-out MIDI interface for Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS X. With MIDI Mate, you can obtain perfect MIDI timing performance at an extremely affordable price.

Sometimes when collecting and researching news and products for GearJunkies, we come along some interesting GEAR. So we stumbled upon ChordSpace. ChordSpace is a plug-in that generates MIDI chords. No knowledge of theory is needed to use it. You simply click around until you find a progression that works for you. ChordSpace has a palette of over 200 chords per key, all logically laid out so that great progressions are easy.

Veteran keyboardist Rags Tuttle has created an entirely new instrument that brings fresh methods of playing to musicians of all skill levels. His creation, the Musicpole MIDI Controller, wraps a standard keyboard around a visually striking acrylic pole, using the music theory of the circle of fifths to arrange the keys in a unique spiral pattern. Unlike a standard, flat keyboard, the spiral layout of the Musicpole puts all of the right notes for a given musical key directly in front of the player in a vertical row. To play in another key, the player rotates the entire Musicpole to another of the 12 keys labeled at the top of the pole.