Gibson robotic guitar designed to claw drummer’s eyes out
I really should not be supporting stereotypes regarding drummers, or making jokes about them. One of my best friends is a drummer and I’ll probably receive a clobbering for that. That’s partly why it was hard to resist.
But on to the news:
Gibson is bringing out a robotic guitar.
And while it will not fight in the war between guitarists and drummers, it will tune your guitar.
As in, for you. Automatically.
All you have to do is flick a switch that tells the guitar which tuning to use, and it’ll do it all on its own.
Don’t throw your guitar in the bin or pawn shop just yet; there will be a limited release before the public release next year. In the meantime, there’s a nice picture for you to look at.
My father has been using the same tuner for the last twenty five years or something crazy like that. Maybe he was holding out for this thing.
Gibson have been making great guitars for many decades, including the Les Paul which is played by many well-respected and talented guitarists, such as Slash from Guns N’ Roses and Greg Cameron from Midnight.Haulkerton (jeezuz, that was a shameless plug).
What does the Gibson Robotic Guitar mean for musicians?
It means that you won’t instantly the flick the “Amateur” switch on in your audience’s mind when you tune your guitar as your tongue fumbles around a long, boring introduction to the next song. Just friggin’ play already!
November 15th, 2007 at 7:34 am
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November 21st, 2007 at 12:17 am
I don’t exactly know why, and certainly appreciate advances in anything from the all-the-rage GPS thing to some self-tuning guitar, but being a musician myself, it somehow just seems wrong. No, I don’t play guitar. I play piano, I have no choice but to have a pro tune my instrument, so I probably am way off-base. But the guitar … I don’t know, it seems more personal, something you’d want to tune yourself. I used to have a band, and my guitar strumming guys seemed to connect with their 6-strings in the tuning. Maybe they were just weird, tho. They kinda were. But still.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:00 am
Paradiddle on your noggin, Falconer! Followed by a flam to the gut. A fingerspin that ends up with the tip of the nylon-tipped hickory 5B somehow buried in your nostril “Oh, so sorry. However, did that happen? Would you like a lobotomy while I’m here?” :-P ;-)