Musical tool for everyone
January 10th, 2011 | 
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The benefits of music as a therapeutic tool is widely recognized, but in reality the creation of music has traditionally required skill and ability that many people with disabilities are available. Not so Skoog, a new musical instrument that can be played by anyone. This is a musical tool ara worldwide.
Designed specifically to train those who can not play traditional instruments, the subject Skoog is a soft, compressible that plugs into a USB port. Once done, users can only play, press, squash, twist or touch the Skoog play a wide range of instruments in an intuitive way.
With five color-coded, touch-sensitive parts, the Skoog provides access to the full dynamic characteristics of a real flute or xylophone, for example, without control by the player. Any body part can be used to reproduce the Skoog in a variety of forms, such as squeezing to the sounds of the flute or the exploitation of it to strike a xylophone.
And because Skoog uses physical modeling synthesis – not just sampling, synthesis or wavetable midi – which reports directly to the player’s movements, so that variations in contact directly affect the sound produced.
Twelve instruments, brass, wood, percussion and strings can be played with the Skoog, which can also be customized through adjustments of sensitivity and skill. The price is $ 970 for a personal Skoog edition, or $ 770 for education.
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