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Guitarists, your Days are Numbered

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the funk-machines dept.

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."

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  1. I for one... by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new guitar playing overlords.

    Oh wait.. wasn't that Jimmy Hendrix?

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  2. Can it sing? by GaryOlson · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  3. I hope my wife doesn't see this... by lordkuri · · Score: 4, Funny

    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! =)

  4. where did they get the fingertips from? by hobotron · · Score: 5, Funny


    I suppose they ordered 23 cups of Wendy's Chili?

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  5. No, no, no! by rocjoe71 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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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    1. Re:No, no, no! by Mr.Progressive · · Score: 5, Funny

      No Stairway! Denied!

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  6. Indian Guitarists? by skingers6894 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This reminds me of the "programmer's days are numbered" stories - turns out they just got outsourced to India...

  7. Neither have dildos by b00m3rang · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, you said... nevermind.