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soundslikemusic
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SB
Jammin' Hot
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: USA
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| I don't know anything about the tuning system but $125 shipping, pleeeeeze. Snifts of ripoff. SB |
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gtrplyr64
Joined: 18 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: Re: I just found a Self Tuning Guitar on Auction - WHAT DA H |
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We'll it is real and very cool. In 1996 or 1997 there was a right up in one of the guitar mags about Jimmy Page playing this self tuning guitar. What caught my eye was that the company TransPerformance was in Ft. Collins, Colorado and I lived in Denver so I called them up and me and a bandmate went up there. They were in the basement of a house while their shop was being setup, but the let us hang out for several hours and play around with several Les Pauls they had setup. This thing is unreal it can retune the guitar on the fly in about 1.5 seconds!! While you are playing it. Go to the website and watch the movie under the multimedia section. I have it on VHS and it still blows me away evertime I see it.
It has 144 preset tunings and 240 user tuning locations built in. And can switch between any of the tunings while you play.
Here is the link for their website.
http://transperformance.com/index1.html
No BS they were installing the system in a guitar for Joe Perry when I was there and it really does work. It's very expensive The cost of the guitar ( Les Paul, Strat, or Tele only) and $3500.00 for the system fully installed.
Hope that answers your question.
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3951
Location: "Hit The North"
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| Coincidentally, this has also come up on Rocklogicxxx's "Les Paul" thread. I thought it's a lotta dosh, too, but Rocklogicxxx uses a lot of tuning-swaps and is considering having one fitted. I'll flag this up for him. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| that is a coincidence. |
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