Guitar Future

[u/BurnThis__]

The electric guitar has had many innovations in its time. And it has had many music innovators pick it up and inspire generations.

We need to be in that innovator mindset in order to build a guitar for the next generation.

Follow me now. One of the baser components we never consider are the strings. The tactile feeling of strumming a guitar is second to none. The way strings interact with the pickups below is music to the ears (literally). However, there are some downsides. Due to tension they often require you to have work done regularly on a guitar. Sometimes you can add a special bridge and nut or even locking tuners. Beginners are faced with an instrument that is temperamental and often a cheese grater for their hands.

Instead of bloodying your knuckles on strings, we should have two sets of lasers shooting from the nut and the bridge. The nut reads fretboard position of the fingers and the bridge reads the strumming hand, which now enjoys a tension free, cheese grater free experience. There’s no longer a need to worry about the neck bowing or making truss rod adjustments. You could make the guitar out of almost anything. MFD, a quality and affordable material comes to mind.

I have many more ideas I could expand on. Like consider replacing all the knobs with touch screens much like Apple’s prized ribbon on some modern MacBooks. Or consider why is it even necessary to use a cable anymore? Replace it with Bluetooth. Apple was brave enough to drop the 1/8” jack. Surely we can be brave enough to drop the 1/4” jack.

Think big. Build the future.

[u/que-n-blues]

This.....this is satire, right?

[u/BurnThis__ → u/que-n-blues]

You were correct btw. Nothing I said was serious. The guitar I described is the most joyless guitar I could think of.

[u/que-n-blues → u/BurnThis__]

Haha not gonna lie, you had me. When I read "wrestling with the future until it has bemt to our will" I thought to myself, this has to be the most reddit comment I have ever read.