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BOWILLIE	Date: November 15, 2007 @ 2:00 PM technology is on the rise. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21791941/wid/11915829?GT1=10639
Tattoomom	Date: November 15, 2007 @ 2:05 PM I saw that. That's just lazy...
evansorchid	Date: November 15, 2007 @ 7:47 PM That's cool. I like it. Why didn't I think of that.
bmccosar	Date: November 15, 2007 @ 9:49 PM Now if they'd only make a toilet that'd automatically change the paper roll.
shadowself	Date: November 15, 2007 @ 11:27 PM On 15th Nov 2009, Tattoomom said: I saw that. That's just lazy... Yeah! Guitarists should tune to DADGAD mid-song in two seconds manually. I see this guitar as a good thing.
imemine	Date: November 16, 2007 @ 1:11 AM Perfect! Will it play for me too?
zedsalt	Date: November 16, 2007 @ 4:54 PM I don't really care for the ones that sense what string you're fretting where and when, then essentially transcribe the sound. The one that Jimmy Page has been endorsing for the last 15-20 years would be a much better fit for me, I think. It has six servos that physically retune the strings, giving you that nice floppiness when you go lower than standard. The guitar that Joni Mitchell has been using for, again, better than decade and a half, has strings that are all the same size and tension to facilitate tracking. I don't know how well I'd function without that traditional guitar "feel", and as many here could attest, I really don't have the talent to spare.
Distilled1	Date: November 16, 2007 @ 4:55 PM I love that it can do alt tunings thats fantastic!!!
zedsalt	Date: November 16, 2007 @ 5:18 PM I went and looked it up. The TransPerformance was the critter that, among other things, got Page to quit lying about his use of alternative tunings. Nine half-step range/string, 144 factory preset tunings, 240 user-definable tunings, and the last I heard, about 1/2 the price of the new Gibby...I mean, just the bridge/tailpiece assembly was about $3G the last I knew, but, hey, you got a cheap guitar you'd like to put it on? Why not?
zedsalt	Date: November 16, 2007 @ 5:19 PM I wonder if I've used more than 384 tunings since I started playing around with alternative tunings back in college? Could be...
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 17, 2007 @ 10:40 AM I've got one question. Why did they take so long to make it?
zedsalt	Date: November 17, 2007 @ 11:25 AM I figure it's a matter of supply and demand. It was only about a year and a half after TransPerformance started making their automated bridge/tailpieces that they were an option at the Gibson Custom Shop. That was back in the late '80s, when open tunings weren't quite as common. I mean, open tunings have been about as common as hydrogen for centuries, but I'm talking major-marketably-common. The older technology, the kind on the new Gibby, has been a "custom only" option for some time, too. As to why a Paul, well, that's an easy one! Just ask the folks at Kahler- becoming a OEM for Les Paul parts is a dream come true for folks of their stripe. Still, I figure the six-tuning guitar will go the way of the Moderne and the Invader. Now, the 339...a scaled-down version of a Gibson classic...THOSE are gonna be worth BIIIIIG bucks, I'd bet!
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 17, 2007 @ 11:27 AM It's something I'm definitely going to look into, especially with a guitar that goes out of tune faster than my voice.
BOWILLIE	Date: November 17, 2007 @ 11:30 AM you know..it think its awsome... specially when they add it to standard issue guitars later.. for myself..alternate tunings is a mystery to me..never done it..and should learn them.. been playing for 30 years and have allways stuck to standard tune...and recently e flat.. to ease the vocal strain.. you are never to old to learn i suppose.
zedsalt	Date: November 26, 2007 @ 5:55 PM I made a boo-boo in my post of 11:25 a.m., 11/17. When I mentioned the Invader, I meant the Corvus, a much stranger critter that came out at the same time.

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