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Neat. I'd buy one for a couple hundred dollars...3950GBP!!!

Agreed. I'd buy one for $400, maybe, but for ~$5500? That's a bit too much.

Also, while others on this thread seem to think it's very Star-Wars-y and ugly, I personally think it looks rather cool. Nothing wrong with the looks.

Wonder how hard it would be to learn though.

http://www.eigenlabs.com/pico/ is their smaller and less intimidating version for £349.

I'd feel like I was missing out on something. My take is that it's simply a hair over engineered for the level of expressiveness most musicians will be able to play with. Build the same thing at a lower fidelity, sell it at 1/4 the price and maybe it'll take off. Right now, it's the price of really high end traditional instruments. And the next step down is a 10 penny whistle.

In the mass production industry, the first users traditionally pay off R&D at a high price, and then you reduce and sell to everyone else once costs are recovered.

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