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French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has created an installation for the Barbican in London where you can watch a flock of zebra finches playing electric guitars. It's a walk-though aviary where the flock of zebra finches have set up home with their collection of electric guitars and other instruments.
This ingenious acoustic bridge saddle repair was posted at thereIfixedit.com. As a bonus it gives an accurate reading of the string spacing at the bridge.
These guitar effects pedal cushions are made by Gwendolin Tägertof of Soft-Machines. You can buy the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi for 120 Euros or the RAT distortion for 99 Euros.
When Electro-Harmonix found out about these, instead of threatening to sue Ms Tägertof, they offered her a formal license in exchange for an option to buy them at a discount.
Paul Gilbert's secret third hand inadvertently revealed in a Youtube video
The famously generous Scots are at it again. A Scottish rock radio station is giving away FREE air guitars!
The uRock MP3 player is a miniature replica of a PRS guitar, each one comes with a display stand, headphones, a guitar lanyard, and a uRock guitar pick. The player has 1 GB memory (a bit low in comparison with other players). You can also get a matching portable speaker in the shape of a guitar-amp. Price is £50 ($100).
This guitar coffee table was made by self taught metal artist Timothy Adam from Grand Rapids in Michigan. It is an oversized handmade version of a Les Paul around 5 feet long, 2 feet wide and 18 inches high. Made from mild steel it has a blue tinted clear coat.
This is a cool looking air guitar gadget by Takara Tomy from Japan. The plastic device is the first few frets and headstock of a strat style guitar. It looks like it projects an infrared ray from the end of the neck towards your strumming hand that detects your windmill strumming action.
The MiJam Guitar is a guitar simulator which you can plug into your iPod to jam along to songs. It looks like a playstation Guitar Hero controller. There are four preset styles: heavy metal, rock, blues and bass. The fret board on the neck features four sensors, which allows you to the basic chords and riffs.
This is a picture of the world's smallest six string guitar made at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility. It is 10 micrometers long , the size of a single cell. The whole thing was made of silicon, as a demonstration of resonance and vibration at nano-scales. Harold Craighead, the director of the facility at the time described how it works,
It’s that time of year again – when we get the box of Christmas decorations out of the attic and see if the lights still work. It’s also a time when guitar heroes climb into the attic of rock, and rummage in the dusty box of Christmas tunes for a seasonal hit.
Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of carved figures believed to be the first ever depiction of the band Status Quo. The unmistakable wide-legged stance of Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt can clearly be seen in the figure on the right.