Comments on: Robotic guitar like instrument

By: Bass Player

Bass Player — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:31:29 +0000

I loved that Eric Clapton video. Boy can he play the guitar well. The machine will be replacing musicians in the future…ha ha.

By: Greeny

Greeny — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:16:23 +0000

Thanks for your help.

By: Avik Dhupar

Avik Dhupar — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:31:21 +0000

Sounds very much like a sitar, minus the bass.
Awesome!

By: chaoxor

chaoxor — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:08:52 +0000

Sounds as if Autechre attempted to compose some instrumental black metal :D
I like it, especially the 2nd half where it starts sounding crazy.

By: theorifice

theorifice — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:02:02 +0000

someone needs to throw the ebow on this.

By: Jeff Wallin

Jeff Wallin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:45:44 +0000

It would be great if it were tuned properly. The string second from the left being the worst.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:22:27 +0000

taking the ‘robot guitar’ thing in a somewhat different direction, we have a street performer locally who’s a retired engineer.

He plays a fiddle in the conventional manner, and made himself an automatic guitar so he could accompany himself!

it’s powered by a treadle operated by his right foot, and plucks chords that he selects by pressing pedals with his left foot – the plucking seems to have more than one set of cams as I’m sure I’ve heard more than one plucking pattern.

i reckon it’s a pretty cool hack, making a guitar possible to play with your feet. :-)

There are a couple of movies of it in action on his myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/akafilm

it’s quite a sight, and fascinating to watch him play it right there in front of you.

By: sol

sol — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:25:56 +0000

@raged
not really a repeat. the link you posted was to a general overview of all the entries in that contest. this hackaday post is specifically about one of the entries (one of the best, in my opinion)

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:16:14 +0000

Shouldn’t that be spelled “league”?

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:47:54 +0000

Haunting indeed, but they need a better shred song to show this things potential.

By: YenTheFirst

YenTheFirst — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:44:26 +0000

@dax:
The machine does have mutes, they’re right under the rotating picks.
Check out the video from about 2:03-2:15. You’ll notice that the screaming overdriven string on the right isn’t using the mute at all, while the ‘pluck-pluck’ strings to the left are.

By: LotteryPowerballNumbers

LotteryPowerballNumbers — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:19:19 +0000

It’s just amazing, good video.

By: K

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:01:37 +0000

saw this when you did the story on the competition a ways back. I liked it so much it is now on my MP3 player.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:45:38 +0000

@strider_mt2k: Wow yeah I don’t listen to clapton and now i know why. robot:1 clapton:0

By: Matthias Welsh

Matthias Welsh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:34:06 +0000

Music is an interesting place for physical computing to be so popular if you think about its roll in society in the past. It’s been a performing art, something that people spend their lives mastering, filled with emotion and feeling. Something people aspire to being able to achieve. I’m fascinated by the mechanics of this project but as a live music fanatic there’s just not that level of improv, direction and feeling(currently anyway… and somewhere inside I hope there won’t ever be) that can be found in a good live performance where a band is just operating on the same wavelength but by no means mechanically.