I'm looking into a dual manual clone-wheel organ (Hammond vintage, Crumar, Viscount?), and see that pedalboards are > $1500 US.
I have an old Yamaha Electone E3 that will likely be scrapped
It has a nice 25 note pedalboard, so I'm looking into wiring this for MIDI to connect to whatever dual manual organ I get. I've searched these threads, and key contact to MIDI encoders are not as available/cheap as I would have thought. They mostly seemed to be from small companies, mostly extinct. Or Arduino DIY, and I'm not sure I want to dig into the code and everything.
I'm starting to think the simplest, cheapest, and easy to replace if it goes bad, would be to just strip a small MIDI keyboard/controller down and wire the pedal switch to the key switches. There are a few mini 32 note MIDI keyboards available for < $50, or maybe I can find a MIDI keyboard at Goodwill or something? Any thoughts?
Also, some of these controllers only have USB-MIDI, which is expecting to see a host, not a 'slave' device. Will the organs I'm considering accept USB-MIDI note events, or is that only through the 5-pin MIDI IN connectors?
I have an old Yamaha Electone E3 that will likely be scrapped

I'm starting to think the simplest, cheapest, and easy to replace if it goes bad, would be to just strip a small MIDI keyboard/controller down and wire the pedal switch to the key switches. There are a few mini 32 note MIDI keyboards available for < $50, or maybe I can find a MIDI keyboard at Goodwill or something? Any thoughts?
Also, some of these controllers only have USB-MIDI, which is expecting to see a host, not a 'slave' device. Will the organs I'm considering accept USB-MIDI note events, or is that only through the 5-pin MIDI IN connectors?
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