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Guitarists, your Days are Numbered
spackbace writes "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a mechanical guitar playing robot, named the Crazy J. The guitar player is composed of two mechanical systems that interact to play a range of 29 musical notes. A plucking mechanism with six independently controlled picks is mounted over the body of the guitar and a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted over the first four frets of the fingerboard."
I, for one, welcome our new guitar playing overlords.
Oh wait.. wasn't that Jimmy Hendrix?
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Unless it can give mouth to mouth resuscitation to a bottle of tequila, smell bad, and grow long hair, country music is still safe. Go Willie Nelson!
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a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted
there's just no way I can compete with that!
quick! post a dupe or something so she doesn't see it! =)
I suppose they ordered 23 cups of Wendy's Chili?
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...Fer fucks sake, just don't teach it goddamn "Stairway to Heaven"... anyone who's spent 10 minutes in a any guitar store on a busy street knows what I'm talking about.
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. . . as poorly as I do.
I cant wait to see this thing live!!
Does it come with a self flaming option??
Machines always sound better than humans anyway.
I just love it when a midi player plays a piece of music note for note directly as it was written as sheet music with no interpretation because we all know that a whole note should always be played as 2 half notes.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
This reminds me of the "programmer's days are numbered" stories - turns out they just got outsourced to India...
I like the variation that "imperfect" humans add to the music.
:)
I wish *you* had been my band teacher in 7th grade.
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Thats 26 more than our greatest punk bands ... the human race is doomed!
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Oh, you said... nevermind.
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I've seen Yngwie play flight of the bumble bee way faster than their demo. Maybe if it was written in code thats stuck in the 80s it could play faster?
But can it play the hardest chord ever?
man that chick could sing.
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it doesn't s l i d e which means it will never play lead for shit. nice hammer-ons, but that gets old quick. finger wigglers we call 'em.
Yes, we need more 6 foot, shear wielding autonomous robots... that's exactly what we need.
... and then, at the end of the performance, the guitar sets itself on fire!
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
What do you mean he's not dead? Have you seen him lately?
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Georgia Tech thanks you for your list of suggestions for Crazy J 2.0. These items will be assimilated soon. Resistance is futile.