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Inventor's description
Read how Rolf describes the Headspace Instrument (PDF)
(used with permission)
Rolf Gehlhaar
Description of Headspace Instrument
Headspace can be described as a virtual instrument as the sounds are created through a computer using synthesised sounds. If anyone says it can't be a real instrument, then you must have to look at the similarity between this and a synthesiser. They are very similar in the way they produce sound, the key difference is how the instrument is controlled.
As an accomplished pianist, Clarence will have played a synthesiser many times. Since the accident, he had electronic controls installed in his house that he operates with a blow tube, so a instrument that is like a synthesiser, but controlled by head movements and breath is ideal for him.
The instrument's inventor Rolf Gehlhaar, who describes himself as a 'German-born English-resident American' warns against complacency. "It is a real musical instrument and like any instrument you need to put effort into practising it", he says.