Have you ever looked at a guitar and thought “Nah, that’s way too easy to play.”[Mattias Kranz] seems to have done, so he built the 360 Guitar, a new instrument with a circular, rotating neck. The rotating neck means that it can have more strings than most: we think that it has sixteen, but it’s hard to tell. Anyway, it has a lot of strings and looks utterly impractical, which makes it an exciting project.
The basic idea is intriguing: take a conventional guitar design and replace the fretboard with a rotating pillar. Perhaps even stick a motor in there to rotate it on command. Each of the strings is mounted along this pillar using standard string retainers and tuning pegs, with frets along the pillar. Because you can fit so many strings, you can use all of the standard strings for a bass and treble guitar, plus a few extra like the thickest bass string available and the thinnest guitar strings. It’s like a four-dimensional Chapman Stick.
[Mathias] is still working on the project as you can see in the video below the break, so we will be interested to see what new design aspects he comes up with, like the plan to use a motor to rotate the neck. [Mattias] has built a few instruments that we have featured before, like the Helium guitar, which replaces the resonant cavity with a helium balloon, and the Plasma Piano, a combination of piano and tuned plasma coil.
a Gatling Guitar?
This would look nice on the Rammstein Stage. But sadly all the *ape scandals and lawsuits…
He’s been cleared, appeared to have been false accusations. Investigation was cancelled by the police. So you can scrap those thoughts. No ongoing lawsuits or scandals.
He wasn’t “cleared.” The Berlin district attorney (not the police) stopped the proceedings. Some of the people who made accusations in public did not present those accusations to the DA’s office – their statements in public don’t count as evidence, the statements have to be made to the DA. Of those who did make statements to the DA, the DA determined that the statements were not sufficient evidence to certain of obtaining a conviction.
Lindemann isn’t “cleared.” The DA is simply not pursuing the case at the moment. That might be because Lindemann is innocent, and it might be because the Berlin DA would prefer to wait for better evidence before putting it before the court.
I certainly don’t know where the truth is. Lindemann and Rammstein might be really cool dudes – and they might be really scuzzy rapists.
The DA seems to feel that the evidence isn’t sufficient to decide.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/till-lindemann-rammstein-ermittlungen-eingestellt-berlin-100.html
English translation via Google Translate:
https://www-zdf-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/panorama/till-lindemann-rammstein-ermittlungen-eingestellt-berlin-100.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
That’s as close to ‘cleared’ as DAs ever come.
Exceptions are very, very rare.
Accusers are likely judgement proof.
DAs love to bankrupt people they know they can’t convict.
If they didn’t bring charges, they didn’t expect a positive outcome in the press.
Innocent till proven guilty. Until there is enough evidence to secure a conviction without doubt, its only fair to presume innocence.
The Gatlin Gun under the Guitars!
>”There’s no way you can play that guitar”
>Agrees, doesn’t play it
Lol that was pretty good
I would suggest teaming up with Rob Scallon to try playing it.
Holy shit, cool drop. Thanks.
For a suggestion of how this could be playable, have a look at “Midnight” from Joe Satriani.
And a bit more nitpicking:
I looks more like 20 strings then 16.
Get that piano dude from Fifth Element (or maybe GATTACA I think)- the one with 6 fingers.
Maybe some servos on a slider mechanism with a keyboard as interface on the base. Each key plays a note.
Assumed the strings would be ‘bowed’ from the inside at first sight. I am confuse and frighten.
Hurdy-gurdy revision?
Go for the total overkill with a built-in Leslie speaker
When an engineer tries to “reinvent” a guitar.
This guy’s whole thing is wacky bullshit instruments. He’s not doing it for practicality.
OK, now invent someone or something to play it.
There is an update on this one. And of course there is one person on this planet who can play ANY bass. And not it’s NOT davie504…
Take a look after the break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxMxqZv4910