This may be the coolest guitar tech I’ve ever seen. First post hope I did it right. Like holy damn, magnets, this looks like future tech.
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- KiwiTB@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
And that’s the closest I’ve seen someone come to serious injury due to incompetence in a while
4 monthsi think the incompetence comes into play from knowing the risk but proceeding for the memes. and like. look. respect to doing luthery as a form of stunt work. but all amateur stuntwork is ultimately a form of incompetence. it’s cool, and respectworthy. but it’s also not… the competent thing to do to see a magnet break a slat, realize it can break your finger, and then press on to do it.
Ok that’s fucking awesome! I can already see a black version with sound reactive LEDs that would look sick with a fog machine! 🤘
Thanks for sharing!
- XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Yes, yes, this art is nice, but you know what it needs? Lights
Not /s
- BC_viper@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Oh shit, not only rgb, but lights that change with the frequency, tied into the magnetics to change colour’s as its played.
- XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Map the physical area to a scale. Map the scale to the rainbow. Make chords a 2D representation of sound space. Make palm mutes drain the color. Make squealies vibrate the array. GIVE ME THE MUSIC VISUALIZER IN MY HANDS (and a blunt)
- fluxx@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Interesting experiment. But same idea as a tremolo bridge, but instead of springs in tension, he uses a magnet. An improvement could be the same - instead od directly pulling, he could try the hinge/lever setup like in a tremolo. Could also use mechanical advantage to make use of smaller magnets. An additional benefit is improved safety. But you would just reinvent the tremolo, only make it more expensive. Already, this sounds more or less like a floating style tremolo, but with additional floating. And increased price. And safety concerns.
- RustySharp@programming.devEnglish4 months
I knew who it would be before opening the video. His whole thing is about making strange - and very often, unsafe - musical instruments. One of his early videos was replacing piano hammers with actual hammers.
His spinning guitar is actually super cool though!
Its a video so tough to quickly scan so I didn’t watch it. To keep the block in that plane, I think that needs the forces to be to magnets pulling towards each other at the back and that seems like it would make the tuning hard since tightening / loosening each string moves and rotates the block holding the strings. Did they say much about that?
- bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 months
Yeah they did. The first iteration only used the original tuning pegs, which caused problems similar to your comment. In the end he went with a system resembling a more classic floating bridge, and he was able to tune it
- Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
They do, actually too much tension that the strings snap. Sounds pretty good before they break
Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.
- bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 months
A piano with this technology might as well be classified as an MRI machine
I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄
- 4 months
Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end. That’d probably spoiling the visuals - though clear acrylic might work.
The tuning was the the other huge issue, he didn’t actually say how long it took to get in tune tune, nor how long it held tune.
cool though
- ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 months
Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end
Only if you’re a scared little bitch /s
- totesmygoat@piefed.caEnglish4 months
This guy looked at a Floyd rose and said… Amateur. Hold my beer.
- Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
Fun and dangerous experiment but of course not feasible in the long run.
- BC_viper@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
I mean, what if you stabilized it even more by adding magnets on the side. The frontier is often the most dangerous. What if this is just the beginning of a new format?
- 4 months
Powerful magnets like that are incredibly dangerous. Even at the end of the video, you saw what happens when the strings break.
- Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish4 months
The strings breaking is also inevitable even with a regular guitar lol. It just happens. And this guitar is even more prone to it. So definitely not a viable instrument. Fun little dangerous gag tho.
