Smallest Keyboard

I am looking for an electronic keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need for speakers) that I can take on a plane
as carry on luggage. What is the smallest keyboard that is available
in stores or online?
If it just has to be an electronic instrument, not necessarily a
keyboard, look at the Deger or Fagerstrom electronic pipe chanters.
See the "travels with an electronic bagpipe" pages on my website.
I've used my Deger on planes many times (okay, not in the US, nor
am I contemplating ever going there again).
I feel that way about LHR and the UK, especially now with the triumph of
collective corporate and labor submediocrity, T5, as a potential transit
point...

There's probably not much to choose between Heathrow's combination of
arrogance and incompetence and the TSA's mix of paranoia and idiocy.
I've only been to Heathrow when my job required it - never used it for
a holiday.

It occurs to me that an old Yamaha Portasound might meet the OP's
bill. You can get them so cheap second-hand that it doesn't matter
if it gets lost or destroyed (Deger chanters like mine are fairly
expensive). If the speakers can't be turned off as it comes, it
can't be hard to open it up and rewire them to a headphone socket.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

On Mar 30, 12:18 am, "Mr. Travel" wrote:
Trish wrote:
I am looking for an electronic keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need
for speakers) that I can take on a plane as carry on luggage. What is
the smallest keyboard that is available in stores or online?

Thanks a lot for you help.

Trish

Are you looking to just take it on, or do you plan on playing it?
You might have a problem with that as it is might not be on the list of
electronic items permitted to turned on, due to potential RF
interference issues.

Good point. They have no exclusions, but I will specifically ask.
Does asnyone have any experience with Air Canada?

Thanks!

Trish

On Mar 30, 2:56 am, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
I am looking for an electronic keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need
for speakers) that I can take on a plane as carry on luggage. What is
the smallest keyboard that is available in stores or online?

If it just has to be an electronic instrument, not necessarily a
keyboard, look at the Deger or Fagerstrom electronic pipe chanters.
See the "travels with an electronic bagpipe" pages on my website.
I've used my Deger on planes many times (okay, not in the US, nor
am I contemplating ever going there again).

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

Thanks, Jack, but I really want a keyboard.

Trish

On Mar 30, 2:29 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
I am looking for an electronic keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need for speakers) that I can take on a plane
as carry on luggage. What is the smallest keyboard that is available
in stores or online?
If it just has to be an electronic instrument, not necessarily a
keyboard, look at the Deger or Fagerstrom electronic pipe chanters.
See the "travels with an electronic bagpipe" pages on my website.
I've used my Deger on planes many times (okay, not in the US, nor
am I contemplating ever going there again).
I feel that way about LHR and the UK, especially now with the triumph of
collective corporate and labor submediocrity, T5, as a potential transit
point...

There's probably not much to choose between Heathrow's combination of
arrogance and incompetence and the TSA's mix of paranoia and idiocy.
I've only been to Heathrow when my job required it - never used it for
a holiday.

It occurs to me that an old Yamaha Portasound might meet the OP's
bill. You can get them so cheap second-hand that it doesn't matter
if it gets lost or destroyed (Deger chanters like mine are fairly
expensive). If the speakers can't be turned off as it comes, it
can't be hard to open it up and rewire them to a headphone socket.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

Thanks again! I have my eye on as couple on eBay. Too bad they still
don't make the mini keyboards though.

Trish

"Trish" wrote in message
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On Mar 30, 2:56 am, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
I am looking for an electronic keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need
for speakers) that I can take on a plane as carry on luggage. What is
the smallest keyboard that is available in stores or online?

If it just has to be an electronic instrument, not necessarily a
keyboard, look at the Deger or Fagerstrom electronic pipe chanters.
See the "travels with an electronic bagpipe" pages on my website.
I've used my Deger on planes many times (okay, not in the US, nor
am I contemplating ever going there again).

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk
====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800
739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic
fonts

Thanks, Jack, but I really want a keyboard.

Yamaha used to make a 32-key children's keyboard (rather narrow keys
though), which I can't buy anymore (after I destroyed mine attemping to take
out bits to get the weight even lighter).

The next size up is I think 37-keys but with the stereo speakers they insist
on putting in, it's not that small.

If you have a laptop computer, it's possible to get software to treat the
keyboard like a music keyboard, but it is very fiddly to use (and the
version I had, had a small but annoying delay between pressing the key, and
the sound).

--
Bart

William Black wrote:
"TMOliver" wrote in message
...

I suspect, Jack, reading your posts in several ngs over a number of years,
is that your problem with ICE/La Migra/Immigration in the US is that
you're such a egregiously self-proclaimed and sleeve-emblazoned asshole
that the bureaucrats react negatively to your appearance.

Oh come on Tom.

The US immigration service is known and admired throughout the world for its
rudeness and the vile manners of its staff.


It's not just the zombies on the desks, it's the whole crap moronic
system. I was just talking to a guy yesterday, who since being escorted
to that little room in back of immigration three times in one year now
asks straight away "let me guess, your computer says I haven't left the
USA since 1999?"
All because the airline forgot to take the immigration tag out of his
passport way back then.

T.