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Name: ThumMeister

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

In the late 1980’s, I tried to write insanely great code for the Mac and help others do so, too. When Windows swept through the Valley in 1991-2, I realized my great code would become worthless if the Mac platform sank. I became very interested in knowing how to spot winning platforms. Since Microsoft clearly knew how to make its platforms succeed, I joined its Systems Strategy Group. While designing and executing practical "technology evangelism" campaigns, I studied the theory behind the practice, eventually teaching mandatory "how-to" seminars to Microsoft's new evangelists. I left Microsoft in 2000, looking for a new industry to disrupt. When my wife quit her piano lessons after six months of diligent practice, saying that “music is just too hard,” I knew I’d found it. Hammering the Web relentlessly, I found a novel combination of old ideas which could make music dramatically easier to teach, learn, & play, more emotionally expressive, and expand the frontiers of tonality. This blog tells the story of my bringing those innovations to market.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Other Thum Blogs

Ken Rushton, a Music Brain and ThumClub member, is blogging about the Thummer, in hiw Music Science Guy blog. He can't wait to get a Thummer-brand jammer, so he's building his own: the ZipEx jammer.

"Thummer-brand jammer?" Jammer is the generic name of any electronic musical instrument that combines a 2D button-field with the Wicki note-layout, whereas Thummer(tm) is the trademarked name of Thumtronics' version thereof. So, anyone can call their instrument a jammer, the way anyone can call their instrument a piano or a guitar -- but only Thumtronics can call their jammer a Thummer.

2 Comments:

MusicGeek said...: Thanks for the mention! Just one suggestion Jim - I don't see a mention of your blog on the Thumtronics web site, so perhaps a link would be cool, or even a mention in the forum would be helpful in directing people to this interesting blog.
Ken Rushton aka MusicScienceGuy in Vox.com.; June 18, 2007 12:26 AM
ThumMeister said...: Good point! References to the blog have been added to the home page, staff page, and "contact us" page.; June 19, 2007 9:34 AM

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