no suggestions. OK. so that was a pretty long winded post. Sorry. but anyway, I'm moving away from the idea of hacking up my old keyboard and I'm thinking that I could spit out midi messages to a midi synth. I have never played with midi stuff before, but after reading some posts like the one called
'button press AND hserout issues?!' it looks possible. well sort of, the OP of that post had some unresolved issues.

if I put a 20MHz resonator on my 16F628A, then connect it to something like this:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8953
and then connect some powered speakers to the headphone jack, I'm thinking I could play different tones at the same time, and also switch instruments

anybody have some insight on midi? would this work?