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The Self-Tuning Guitar
CowboyRobot writes "With the TransPerformance Performer you push a button to activate a mechanical re-tensioning of the strings to any of a few hundred tunings, 'accurate to within 2 cents over the entire tuning range', in a couple of seconds. They can even refit your existing guitar. There's a long audio interview with Jimmy Page on the site. It's funny to hear him speak."
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
...for when cars become self-tuning too. ;)
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Now if only they could get one to automatically play a real F or some of the more complicated SUS7#'s for us...
I have the fealing that most guitarists use the F just to stop me from trying to learn the song.
--Turvey
I had a flame... but she had a fire.
man, I feel bad for the roadies.
No more tuning the guitars.
Sucks to be them.
Guess its mic checks from here on out. Sorry fellas.
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Does it run linux? It would be cool to be able to check your email in the middle of a gig by running mutt on the LCD display.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Now if only we can get these for vocalists...
now I don't have to be concerned that I'm putting to much tension on my G-string... phew!
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Well, someone was going to say it...
Take a look under the testimonials section...Used by the band "Paul Allen and the Microsofts"??? I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but /.'ers believe you me, its an omen. This thing must someone be evil.
But the site sucks big time. Nothing like having to constantly scroll in a tiny window when the rest of my display is going to waste to make me want to buy a product.
Of course, the site is designed with the artiste in mind, which means looking good is more important than actually being good.
Now that just anyone can tune a guitar, I guess I have to find something more elite...
I have invented the self-playing guitar. In a fit of creative frenzy I have named it the CD!
If anyone doesn't know who Jimmy Page is, please post your address so I can come smack you.
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Yeah, just like all the green-ass programming students are still learning assembly before writing crappy programs in VB. Err, wait a minute...
[FromTheMorning]
Quoth Homer:
"You can see everything from here! There's Big Ben, there's Picadilly Circus, and there's Jimmy Page, the greatest thief of American Black Music who ever lived!"
self tuning singers......
Ironically, they were going out of style!
--RJ
...about harpists seem somewhat appropriate here:
"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps, and 10 percent playing out of tune".
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The Nashville, TN (my home city) government should have a grant program to provide these for every street musician. There is nothing more detrimantal to our downtown commerce than all of the out-of-tune, drunk singer/songwriters playing on the street.
At least we can now fix the out-of-tune part!
1. O.k. tune up the 4th and 5th strings...
2. What the?
3. Goto 1.
4. Profit!!!
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You can even do this while you're talking, chewing gum, or arguing about which song to play next.
Tuning by eye, however, is something else entirely. It is an obscure talent that I've only seen demonstrated once. The guy played a steel string and he would just hold the where he could see it from the front and then turn all the knobs. When he was done, he'd announce, "That looks about right," and then hold up the guitar for the audience to inspect it. He was good, too -- the guitar was always in tune.
(It was an act of misdirection while he used his footpedal tuner. It got a great reaction from the crowd.)
It's a conspiracy developed by the wives of guitar players to eliminate a reason for buying another guitar!!! The "I need another guitar for an alternate tuning" has been ironclad for the last 50 years. If you run across one of these turn away. Don't look at it. Next they'll comeup with a guitar that lets you interchange bodys, neck and pickups to eliminate the "I needed a (insert one: Gibson (insert one) LP, SG, ES335,etc Fender (insert one) Strat, Tele (insert one) w/HB,, w/S, 12 string, Rick, Gretsch, PRS, etc) justification.
Why? Is he out of tune?
-- clvrmnky
(That, or you received a music degree recently enough that the book has not had time to be burried behind a box of old shoes in your storage closet.)
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