Comments on: Robot Guitar

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:23:44 +0000

I also carry an extra guitar in open G. It’s enough of a drag that I play less music which needs it. …it’s hard enough to find practice time, and the open G songs have one extra hurdle.

So if this takes off maybe people will end up using open tunings as a more mainstream thing.

By: Pribek

Pribek — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:08:53 +0000

It will be pricey, Martin. A Les Paul Standard starts at around 2 grand these days.

It appears to me that the most useful feature would be the ability to instantly go to another tuning while on-stage.

Currently, I use two guitars for gigs. One in standard tuning and one tuned to G that I use for slide stuff. Just doing that adds a surprising amount of time to my set up before a gig.

In a perfect world, I would carry two more guitars tuned to A and E. However, it is costly and time consuming and would not be worth the hassle unless I was playing large shows.

So, that would be nice as far as functionality but, I would have some doubts about the reliability of all those servo motors required to run this thing especially putting the guitar through the paces on-stage.

By: Martin Moon

Martin Moon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:43:30 +0000

Have you seen the video of it in action? This is a link to it. http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/gibson-gets-official-with-the-self-tuning-robot-guitar/

I wonder how much it will add to the cost!
I wonder how useful this feature really is.
Seems like most guitar players I know are already masters at tuning a guitar.