Re: OT: My master luthier instructor/Zen disciplinarian teacher andfriend of the Universe William Eaton and one of his Youtube vids!

[Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin@imt.net>]

Hehe..yeah I didn't mean 'playing the thing' as in holding strings and 
strumming them :-).  Just meant while you're on stage between sections 
or songs or whatever you can ...hit a button and turn your attention to 
other things whether it be talking to the audience between the song or 
whatever. -Bob

Travis Hartnett wrote:

>My understanding is that it takes about ten seconds to retune--you
>active the tuning mode, strum the strings so the pickup can figure out
>what pitch they're currently tuned to, and then the servomotors kick
>in.  So, no mid-song retuning unless you can sit out for four bars or
>so.
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>TH
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>On Jan 13, 2008 7:03 PM, Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com> wrote:
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>>On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Rick Walker wrote:
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>>>Bob Weigel wrote:
>>>"But I think the whole idea is...with the Robo you can just hit a
>>>button
>>>while you are playing the thing and have it go drop D tuning for
>>>instance"
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>>>This is exactly what is exciting about this invention.   In that
>>>sense, it allows
>>>one (as with something like an Echoplex) to make music that has
>>>never been made before.
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