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Re: NAMM 2012

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Getting bored here. :( When does this show start anyway?
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Re: NAMM 2012

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According to the NAMM website:

2012 NAMM Show

Start: 01/19/2012 - 12:00am
End: 01/22/2012 - 11:59pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT-8
Anaheim, California

:shock: Long days! :shock:
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Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM :mrgreen:
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Wildberry wrote:Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM :mrgreen:
Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
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jps wrote:
Wildberry wrote:Don't expect Gibson to shoot all its firework at NAMM, we'll have some equally cool new stuff at Messe this year, maybe even more than at NAMM :mrgreen:
Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
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jps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a joke :mrgreen:
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Wildberry wrote:
jps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a joke :mrgreen:
Kind of intrigued...I have tinkered with Gibson's system a lot and I like the idea but I have found it to be pretty finicky. One of my students had a Robot LP and had all kinds of problems with it, and not his fault either.

A simpler, less-intrusive Robot system on a Fender bass would be really cool to have for gigging.
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John, think of something like this: a little print plate that is kept in place by the tuners. It has its own battery on board and the automatic tuners like Gibson uses them on the robots. The print plate comes with some sort of piezo PU that's used for the tuning. There's a couple of buttons on the print plate, alternative tunings at a few presses of the button, strumming twice (4 strings, the last 2 strings in tune)... and it also works on acoustic guitars! Basses I did not see yet, though.
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Wildberry wrote:
jps wrote:Since most of us won't be at either show, you may as well tell us about it now, Werner.
Fender will be coming with automatic "robot" tuning like we have on the Gibson robots! Located on the headstock, fully retrofittable to real tuners. Funny thing is... this is not even a joke :mrgreen:
Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year? :mrgreen:
The JETGLO finish name should be officially changed to JETGLO ROCKS! :-)
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rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year? :mrgreen:
Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing? :twisted:
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Wildberry wrote:
rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year? :mrgreen:
Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing? :twisted:
Hey, some of us have trouble with just one string...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Wildberry wrote:
rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year? :mrgreen:
Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing? :twisted:
Who said anything about basses? It's the six stringers that all major guitar companies make a big deal about. :? :P :P
The JETGLO finish name should be officially changed to JETGLO ROCKS! :-)
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cjj wrote:
Wildberry wrote:
rickenbrother wrote:Will they come out the device that moves your fingers for you so can play anything without practice or effort next year? :mrgreen:
Come one, we provided you bass players with instruments that have 4 instead of 6 strings, and now you still need help playing? :twisted:
Hey, some of us have trouble with just one string...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Washtub.jpg
This guy seemed to do okay with one string:
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We saw him at the Sawdust Festival during RIC's 75th anniversary weekend. 8)
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Dang, if that guy had bigger sunglasses he could almost pass for me!
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Re: NAMM 2012

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cjj wrote:Dang, if that guy had bigger sunglasses he could almost pass for me!
:shock:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Do you have matching chaps? :mrgreen:
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