I appreciate your advice.

Would be any use, but parts could probably go to the recycler.

Docking station? To mount a loose hard drive? If it has SATA connectors (small & narrow) and is still working, someone could probably use it. If it has old IDE connectors (the big ones that came on the end of plastic ribbon cables) there wouldn't be many of these hard drives around any more and should probably be recycled for metal, wires etc.

I might be calling it by the wrong name) to connect my laptop to a larger screen. This was close to a decade ago.

Given the advice I've been getting, I think I'll just put them both in the electronic recycling.

Thanks very much, cane toad.

I have several of the musical instrument variety, using one on the Roland Keyboard daily.
But it's just an open-closed switch.

The USB ones can be used as page-turners with software such as ForScore and perhaps with PDF-reading programs to flip pages.

I pay ForScore a little extra to get the "gesture" functionality, so a face gesture can turn pages.

I was looking into various pedal devices (USB seems to be the standard) until I found this feature.

I never looked into the details. I can't play fast enough, but I'm working on it.

Brings to mind that old cliche: what will they think of next?

Wow.

I have a backup generator, so I can use the keyboard all the time.
And there's the analog piano!!! It's over 100 years old.

In a previous home, we didn't have backup power, so I played the piano the Mozart and Beethoven way.
With candlelight.

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