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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. Re:Days are numbered? by VoiceOfRaisin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bah. Guitars are dead. The next generation will all be listening to percussive strings played on the Chapman Stick

    um, did you just discover this or something? its been around for over 30 years.