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Good morning NIME!  The OHMI Trust is a charity based in Birmingham, UK, who support the development and use of adapted musical instruments for musicians with disabilities. Part of our work includes the annual OHMI Competition, which challenges instrument designers and makers to develop innovative solutions to adapted instrument design. We also provide support to pupils and music teachers in schools in the acquisition and teaching of adapted instruments, via the OHMI Music Makers scheme. Recently, we launched the OHMI Research Partnership (ORP), a collaboration between OHMI, Queen Mary University of London, and Birmingham City University. The ORP seeks to support and develop research on the subject of music and disability, including instrument design, education, and social policy. We are keen to expand our network of researchers and instrument makers and to set up new collaborations with people interested in this field. In lieu of a physical presence at this year?s NIME, we have been kindly offered a space to meet during the breaks today and tomorrow, for anyone to come along and talk to us to find out more about the OHMI Trust and our future plans for the ORP. Please do come along and say hello!  The link for today?s breakout room is https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77099821129?pwd=YlRjcnl1TFBXVyttSHlSTGczbHUwZz09. We?ll be online between 13:45-14:45 To find out more, visit http://www.ohmi.org.uk and http://www.ohmirp.org.uk for the ORP.

Thanks Marije! Really interesting project. If you could put us in touch within anyone still working on this, that would be great

Great to meet you all! Here are a couple of videos of the one handed violin in action!

Really great stuff, thanks for sharing

~Hi, Bela-people, just a plug for our running installation: https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/projects/self-playing-guitars/events/2020/index.html (with many Belas involved...)~

this is the ohmi channel tho!

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No problem! Nice to see this here too!

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Very cool! How did you get the sensors into the violin?

I used a sharpened pallet knife to get the back off the instrument which is pretty scary and not something you'd maybe want to do to an instrument you like!!! The neck is slightly hollowed out with a Dremel to make space for wiring to the fingerboard sensors.

Morning everyone, if you missed us yesterday lunchtime do drop by today at 1:45pm. If there is anything you would particularly like to know then do drop a note here and we will try and answer those queries. Have a good morning session.

Here?s the zoom link for today?s drop-in session: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77782338161?pwd=c0Y0ZW9XcTYvNzB1VDJUMnAzNHBUUT09 Hope to see some of you there!

Great discussion today, thanks everyone who stopped by to say hello!

Just to repost a couple useful links that were pointed out during the chat, for anyone to follow up on: The OHMI Competition - for instrument makers and designers to submit their designs for instruments playable by people with upper-limb impairments. The purpose of the competition is to highlight and document these instruments and hopefully share them with people that might need them: https://www.ohmi.org.uk/the-competition.html Pat Metheney?s Orchestrion - a great musical robotics project that might hopefully inspire some new accessible instrument designs: https://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/ Ablegamers - custom games controllers designed for use by disabled people: https://ablegamers.org/ Accessible Instruments Hack - an exciting ongoing hack project composed of remote teams working together on a number of different challenges around accessible instrument design. Applications to join a team are now closed but please get in touch with Rachel or Jacob for more info or if you?d like to get involved https://www.accessibleinstruments.com/

Baluji music foundation - an incusive music ensemble and organisation: http://www.balujimusicfoundation.org/ Human instruments haptic baton: a system for visually impaired orchestral musicians and conductors (designed by @x & @charles0matthews among others!): https://www.humaninstruments.co.uk/haptic-baton NYC monthly music hackathon - regular hackathon based in the US that often focuses on accessible instrument projects: https://monthlymusichackathon.org/ Magic flute - an accessible wind instrument/MIDI controller: http://housemate.ie/magic-flute/ BSO Resound - a professional disabled-led ensemble eld by conductor James Rose: https://bsolive.com/people/bso-resound-ensemble/

I think that?s everything! And please feel free to get in touch with me or Rachel at or