So, I've hit a hurdle with my project. As I researched by idea for using bigger version of the iPhone screen for the walls of the drum hallway, I found something that forces me to alter my idea.
The iPhone screens are not mere touchscreens, they utilize technology known as "capacitive" screens, which generate a constant electric current that only interacts with a human's electric field. A stylus pen, a gloved hand or any other object not be recognized by the iPhone screen. This includes sonic vibrations.
This is possibly for the best, because the liquid-crystal screens at the size that I am imagining
are easily $50,000 each, if not more.
Thereby, I have downgraded my idea to a *simple* touchscreen (similar to display screens in stores and computers, etc.) which has had its sensitivity greatly increased to detect the sonic vibrations of the drums.
I have also played with the idea of not just having one long screen per wall, but a series of reasonably-sized flat touchscreens, each of varying size for aesthetic effect. Just an idea.
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