World's First Self-Tuning Guitar To Go On Sale This Week

December 3, 2007

AFP reports that the world's first self-tuning guitar — which is already being used by Billy Corgan from the SMASHING PUMPKINS, among other musicians — was unveiled to the public in London Monday (Dec. 3) — an instrument that automatically detects when a string has fallen out of pitch and corrects it.

The Gibson Robot Guitar was unveiled to the public in the British capital by Mike Peters, lead singer and guitarist from THE ALARM, the biggest band to come out of Wales in the 1980s and famous for rock anthem "Sixty-Eight Guns".

Guitar-maker Gibson, based in Nashville, Tennessee, promise that the instrument, whose technology has been 10 years in the making, will "change the guitar world forever" when it goes on sale around the world on Friday.

It will retail in Britain for 1,400 pounds (1,970 euros, 2,900 dollars). Ten first-run limited editions in the Blue Silverburst Les Paul model will be available in each Gibson store worldwide.

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