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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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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...
Oh, you said... nevermind.