Two Musicians One Guitar
Watch Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima of Duo Siquera Lima perform Tico Tico no Fuba (zequinha de Abreu) with a single guitar at the 2009 Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, Florida. Sorry for the title, I couldn’t stop myself 
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Playable Electric Guitar Shirt
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The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt isn’t just a t-shirt. You can actually play music on it. Use a magnetic pick over the string markings and press down on the frets with your other hand. There’s also a volume nob and an amplifier that fits on your belt.
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Happy Birthday, Electric Guitar
The Gibson electric guitar was patented in the United States seventy-two years ago today. The first electric guitars were developed by the mid-30s in response to the needs of guitarists in jazz orchestras to produce more volume. These were played flat on the lap and became popular with Hawaiian bands. Guy Hart, general manager of the Gibson guitar company, worked on a better design in order to exploit this market:
In late 1935, Gibson rolled out the E-150, its first electric, Hawaiian-style lap steel guitar. It came with an amplifier (just like all electric guitars of the era), and the whole package sold for $150 (more than $2,300 in today’s leaf).
Unlike Rickenbacker’s “frying pan,” Gibson’s guitar actually looked like a guitar, complete with round feminine curves, shoulders and scooped waist. Early models were made of aluminum, but in early 1936, Gibson started building them out of the same wood as its acoustic instruments, making the E-150 look more like a traditional guitar.
Soon thereafter, Gibson duplicated the success of the Hawaiian model by adapting one of its more common “Spanish style” guitars into an electric.
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United Breaks Guitars
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When Dave Carroll and his band Sons of Maxwell wanted to complain about the way United Airlines handled their guitars, they tried going through the proper channels. A year later and no resolution, there’s nothing else to do but write a song about it. There’s also a text version with all the details. Since this video was released Monday, United Airlines has changed its tune and wants to talk to Dave Carroll about his guitar, and has scheduled a call to him today. Link -via Digg
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Rock the Casbah with a Glass Guitar
Other people have made guitar sculptures out of glass before, but glasscutter by day, rock drummer by night Brian Chivers of BC Glass Studio went one step further: he actually created a glass guitar (yes, all glass, except for the strings) that can actually be played.
It took Brian 15 years to figure out how to make it (and about 725 hours to actually make one) … and get this: he doesn’t even know how to play a guitar!
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Laser Guided Guitar Training
Attach this neat little gadget to your guitar, and load in your favorite MP3s on a Flash memory card, and let the laser guides your fingers across the frets.
The device called the "Maestro" is a laser and MP3 guitar learning aid. When you select a song, it computes the MP3 into guitar tabs, and then guides your fingers to the correct frets to play music.
This is definitely the next stage up for those who’ve already completed Guitar Hero on the hardest setting and are looking for their next axe fix.
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Gatortar
Seeing the steampunk electric guitar reminded me of the Gatortar. It is a telecaster guitar, made with alligator skin by Louisiana artist John Preble. Check out the head stock – it’s a claw!
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Steampunk Guitar
Electric rock-and-roll meets Victorian technology in this steampunk guitar!
Built for the 2008 Jersey City Artists Studio Tour by Mark Dalzell, the Steampunk guitar, Organum Insolitus features a television with Fresnel lens magnifier, onboard phaser, an amplifier and uses clockwork gears, hand hammered brass, cloth wire and wood for its making. The freakin’ guitar can also be attached to an external amp via a standard ¼-inch cable, setting up the beastly guitar as game to steam some endless music.
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3 Guitars and 1 Tractor Playing Sweet Georgia Brown
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This ain’t just any tractor … It plays in a quartet alongside three guitarists to perform Sweet Georgia Brown.
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William Laskin's Guitar Inlays
(L) Salvador Dali (R) The Yellow Door by William Laskin
Pardon me while I pick my jaw off the floor after gawking at William Laskin’s gallery of engraved inlays for guitars. William uses as many as 9 different types of species of shell, 15 stones, 4 kinds of ivory and bone, and metals for his inlays. Completing a complex inlay can take him more than 175 hours, but the results are worth the effort.
They are gorgeous! Link – via SparkBox
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