Robot guitars: self tuning, intonating etc..

[Jim Williams]

One product I would like to see from the new Tascam/Gibson is a robot Godzilla.

I could send it down the street on halloween and scare the sh*t out of my neighbors...

[shedshrine]

*looks for image of Godzilla with guitar

[shedshrine]

[Jim Williams]

Looks like a Japanese version of "Beach Blanket Bingo".

[kslight]

With Gibson buying out Tascam, I was looking for a pic to post showing how an electronics firm and a guitar company might combine their strengths.
This was something I came across. Kind of iPad meets one of those old Roland (Casio?) midi controller jobbies. Interesting concept, a completely different beast altogether to the conventional, unrecognizable to callous fingered string benders. Basically a 24 fret synth.

http://www.misadigital.com/kitara.html

I was interested in that when it came out, as I am primarily a keyboard player looking for interesting ways to control my gadgets. Ultimately though....not quite there...though marginally cooler than keytar.

[RefD]

Gibson bought Tascam?

*headexplodey*

i remember when Gibson bought Oberheim and then held a pillow over their heads.

funnily enough, Gibson themselves were once owned by one of the companies who had bought Moog Music at one time (late 70s-early-80s). can't remember the name.

[Jim Williams]

Gibson is eating their young.

[shedshrine]

point taken. Next owner will get back to basics...one hopes.

[markjazzbassist]

couple things about the gibson bankruptcy. i hope they remove the 40 models of les paul and just make a standard and deluxe model of everything. simplify and make good guitars again instead of the shit they've been churning out for decades. some awful stuff leaving their factory. that and sell off all the other brands you own (wurlitzer, tobias, tascam, onkyo, etc.) and just make guitars and maybe some amps. specialization.