[tasooey]

Haha I'll admit the synthesizer wasn't great. I just used the default.

I'm a violinist, and actually have owned/played on several electric violins in the past. The most decent model (from sharmusic.com) that I tested back in 2006 costed $500. The fifty dollar ones just didn't cut it for me.

The point of the violin design, however, was so I could tie different aspects of performance (body movement, bow tilt, vibrato) to new parameters.

Previous designs actually didn't use iPhones or wiimotes. Rather, just DIY accelerometers. But, I wanted to use devices that people already had. So of course I wouldn't expect people to shell out cash to buy an iPhone just for this purpose. But for those existing iPhone users (who don't have a Wii), buying a Wiimote isn't too costly.

[leviathant]

I understand - and I hope that the takeaway of my post wasn't "This is a dumb idea" or anything like that :) I think this idea is fun, and I hope it grows to become a gateway drug to learning proper instruments, a la Rock Band. I just thought that was kind of a silly pitch for that particular page.

Mind you, I'm just a guy on Hacker News, and this is just your Kickstarter video. With any luck, this is merely the beginning of the process, and no one's going to not-buy it because a single tag line on one of the clips might have been better written. Thanks for stopping by to comment though!