Gibson Self Tuning Guitar
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:15 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:21 pm
WOW!
Posted: 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?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:25 am
Cool idea.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:15 am
Well... I guess those 8000 dollar trans trem systems are officially obsolete...
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:07 am
Maybe the guitar will play itself also...
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:07 am
wow, how cool is THAT! How much $$$ ?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:18 am
If it can't play "Free Bird", I want no part of it.
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:19 am
WOW
I got to try one of these.
I got to try one of these.
Posted: 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....
Posted: 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...
"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...
Posted: 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.
This may be Paul's point.
Posted: 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!
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!
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:18 am
Kinda like "Layla" with all those slide guitar overdubs.