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Thank you for all your nicely put opinions. I had a lot of smiles and did some thinking and ended up agreeing with Mark (below). I was never asked by anybody at Gibson whether the design fitted to what I had put into it or whether it fits to the customers I would expect (after I we had demoed the LOOP delay to hundreds of people during Frankfurt Messe). I may not be very smart at it anyway... and those people are all long gone, so it could be totally different today... With this discussion you animate a scenario, my friends, thank you very much! >wow, that's sure the best nativity scene I've ever seen on a guitar. >For the EDP, I'd suggest a more secular look. > >I hate to say it, but the "who cares about design?" attitude is totally >typical of the more technically orientated. One of my good friends >(does the backend web based database programming) thought the end of the >web happened with the introduction of images. Because of this attitude, >I see a hell of a lot of ugly web sites. A hell of a lot of ugly in >general. > >Now, have I ever bought a piece of gear or instrument because of it's >look? No. However, I know that when I first saw a Steinberger I >thought, "Wow, weird. I wonder what that plays like?" My curiosity >influenced me to play one, and it's quality got me to eventually buy >one. > >So there you have it. I can think of a bunch of other times similar >things have happened. The first time I saw an Alessis Air Effect, I >thought, "What the hell is that thing?" Got me to check one out for >sure. Never bought one, as it didn't do anything that other gear I have >already does, but with a different interface. It got me to tell a DJ >friend of mine about it, though, and he bought one. > >Now frankly, the look of the EDP says to me, "Small company, maybe not >going to be around very long. Ran out of cash and didn't do any >industrial or graphic design." I know this isn't true, but when this is >at your local music shop in a rack of other gear screaming for my >attention, unless I'm looking for it, it may be easy to pass by. Now, >if it looked interesting, a young pre looper might ask the salesman, >"Hey, what does that thing do?" (if it's designed correctly, the look >would elude to it's function as well) A quick demo, and they're running >visa cards. They all live happily ever after. Next year a stereo >version comes out. > >The End. > >Tom Ritchford wrote: > >> is there one of you on the list who can really >> truly claim you never bought an instrument >> at least partly because it looked exciting? >> >> (and if you are a guitarist, I'm not going to believe >> you if you say no!) >> >> For example, I have two of these: >> >> http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2000/dec11a.html >> >> aren't they great? >> >> http://whatGoes.com ................ extreme NY calendar. >> http://ax.to/fortune ......... a new fortune every minute. >> http://clikTrik.com .................. Many, many photos. -- ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org