Gibson Self Tuning Guitar

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:15 pm

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Introducing%20Powertune_%20Gibson_/

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:21 pm

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:31 am

Wish the Grateful Dead had them back in the 70's when I saw them. Took the guys like 4 hours just to tune up...or were they trying to play songs?

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:25 am

Cool idea.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:15 am

Well... I guess those 8000 dollar trans trem systems are officially obsolete...

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:01 am

Marc... I think that was actual songs the Grateful Dead were playing.

Reminds me of 'Concert for Bangladesh' when the crowd gave Ravi Shankar and his troop polite applause when they thought that the tuning was an actual song.

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:07 am

Maybe the guitar will play itself also...

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:07 am

wow, how cool is THAT! How much $$$ ?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:18 am

If it can't play "Free Bird", I want no part of it.

dswp · Post by **dswp** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:19 am

WOW

I got to try one of these.

eatswodo · Post by **eatswodo** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:25 am

Doesn't that picture of the headstock look like a mockup? The tuners seem crooked, and their corners hang over the edges....

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:27 am

Paul wrote:
"If it can't play "Free Bird", I want no part of it."

It can play it. Just move your fingers to the right notes, and pick the strings...

sharkboy · Post by **sharkboy** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:45 am

But to play "Freebird" live, don't at least five of the eleven guitars have to be tuned in small-but-painful increments between an eighth tone and a quarter tone flat (average- each string has its own "special" tuning)?

This may be Paul's point.

kcole4001 · Post by **kcole4001** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:59 am

Bloody 'ell!
Is this really a good marketing idea?

Why not just save the money & hire a tech/roadie to tune & lug the stuff for you!
Of course, then Gibson wouldn't get a cut from the roadie's salary!

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:18 am

Kinda like "Layla" with all those slide guitar overdubs.