“The PIano Massager”

Music and massage are a natural fit. What if there was a device to literally, physically, combine the two? This was the impetus for Mike’s casual foray into the healing arts. This iteration, practiced on a variety of backs from 1999 to 2001, included a tiny Casio keyboard that Mike repurposed, adding subtle notes to each “key” depressed on the back. Mike has designs on improving this, with lightweight aluminum to replace the wood (alternatively too rigid or floppy to adequately respond to the “keyboard” player’s motions), and switching the entire orientation so that the keyboard would operate padded hammers tapping down onto the back, mounted in a device arching over the back of the person getting the massage. The idea is to focus controlled pressure from the finger tips into specific areas of the back, and to mediate the relationship between the people giving & getting a massage without removing the attributes of physical healing like some massager app.