Pressure sensitive controller for electronic musical instruments

An electromechanical transducer for an electronic musical instrument comprising

• A. means forming a first electrical contact,
• B. an elongated resistance element adjacent to, but spaced from, said contact,
• C. a resilient mounting element (a) having elongated tapered channels at opoosed sides thereof and of a depth increasing from a remote end of said resistance element to a near end thereof for providing increasing yield at positions corresponding to increasing depth in said channels, and (b) including means forming a force-receiving surface on one face thereof and a concave curved surface on an opposed face thereof accommodating a deformable, elongated conductive strip thereon, said strip being electrically connected at one end thereof to said first electrical contact, said strip being
• (1) aligned with and opposed to said resistance element,
• (2) mounted to curve away from said resistance element increasingly from said near end in the absence of exterior forces on said strip, and
• (3) mounted to provide increasing contact with said resistance element starting from said near end thereof in response to exterior forces thereon, to thereby provide a varying resistance between said first contact and the remote end of said resistance element, and said force-receiving surface being elongated with said strip such that the minimum resistance achievable between said first contact and said remote end of said resistance element can be varied by varying the location of the exterior force applied to said force-receiving surface.