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Assisted guitar

Music Robotics

Max Flebus, a MAKE subscriber from Milan, sent us a link to this wonderful video of musician Paolo Angeli (who’s worked with Fred Frith) playing a guitar that has motors inside the sound hole whacking away on the strings and robot-finger-like strikers, powered by foot pedals, that Paolo controls while playing the guitar with a bow, creating a sort of cobot guitar.

Paolo Angeli (site is in Italian)

4 thoughts on “Assisted guitar

  1. TX says:

    That sound gets kind of annoying after awhile… just my opinion…

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