Yesterday, Gibson Guitars released its self-tuning Robot Guitar. It'll add about $800 to the price of a new guitar (it's available only on mid-range guitars with street prices over $2,000), and will ...

December 24, 2005 For most people, tuning a guitar takes three to five minutes and when they have finished, the final result is not very good. These people will love the Transperformance self-tuning ...

When music legend Peter Frampton rocks out, he does it on a guitar born in... Fort Collins? Known for The Herd, Humble Pie and for recording with artists like Jim Price, Jerry Lee Lewis, Harry Nilsson ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most musicians can tune their instruments whenever they like. The ...

January 10, 2008 Some of the best guitarists have an amazing ability to pick out which of their strings are out of tune and adjust them mid-song – for the rest of us, the tuning process can be an ...

It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

We’ve long admired the self-tuning Gibson Robot guitars, and now Fret-King has joined the automated axe jam. The Fret-King Super-Matic guitar, rather than using motorised tuners like the Gibson Robots ...

As a once and forever 15-year-old boy, I find few words in the English language provide me with quite the same frisson as robot. Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion—all highly ranked in my stunted ...

The somewhat aptly-named Gibson Robot Guitar went on sale today, after 10 years of development. A second set of pickups monitors the pitch of each string, and actually transmits information up the ...