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.
That is the scariest guitar I’ve ever seen.
Fair
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.
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!
And that’s the closest I’ve seen someone come to serious injury due to incompetence in a while
It wasn’t incompetence though. He knew the risks.
Well you’ve never seen me in daily life then. Checkmate dude.
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!
Yes, yes, this art is nice, but you know what it needs? Lights
Not /s
Rgb everywhere. Bring it on.
Oh shit, not only rgb, but lights that change with the frequency, tied into the magnetics to change colour’s as its played.
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)
One step closer to a solar powered laser beam guitar.
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?
95% of the video was about how hard tuning was. So yah its hard.
Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.
You want magnets that powerful next to your face?
Fun and dangerous experiment but of course not feasible in the long run.
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?
