Gibson Robot

[catso]

The world's first self-tuning guitar......

http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/guitar.html

[Rob-C]

Think of a '59 Les Paul Standard and what a timeless classic design that is.

It's hard to imagine this guitar being viewed the same way in 2055.

[bga]

Rob-C said:

Think of a '59 Les Paul Standard and what a timeless classic design that is.

It's hard to imagine this guitar being viewed the same way in 2055.

no, but self tuning may be a feature on many of them.
Or may not

[ih8thisname]

Its a great idea and brilliantly engineered, but to be honest i don't really see the point of this... Or am I missing something?

Any Gibson i've ever known of has had rock solid tuners anyway, and no guitar especialy a Gibson should be dropping out in such a way that it needs to be tuned automaticaly all the time.

And besides, If you can't manualy tune a guitar you shouldn't really be playing a Gibson should you?

[kiwisr]

ih8thisname said:

And besides, If you can't manualy tune a guitar you shouldn't really be playing a Gibson should you?

Not necessarily true, after all how many performers actually tune their own guitars?

In any case there are people like me who will get excited about learning a guitar, buy a Gibson because of the name and it will then sit unused after the 1st week.

[SaliMali]

Save up for the Robot....then save up some more and buy a John Suhr.

[Airbag]

All that hardware is going to do is add more weight to an already obese guitar and embolden a generation of guitar players too lazy to get even the most basic amount of musicality going. As a technical exercise, cool. As an instrument? What a fvck*ng joke.