Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

actually the system was invented years ago before in the U.S. by trance 
performance,Jimmy Page,Graham Nash and others have been using this system 
succesfully for years,the German company just put this whole concept into 
tuning pegs instead of inside of the body of the guitar.
However i ve read a lot of negative reviews on this new gibson prototypes 
and about the system being too expensive and not being really efficient 
and having major issues.
I called the power tune company here in germany not long ago to ask them 
if they would consider developing this technology for acoustic guitar but 
they said thats something they will try to explore,although is much more 
complicated to develop for some reason.Trance performance however has  
already done it and brought out an acoustic guitar prototype that costs a 
fortune with the system inside(there was a video of Graham Nash commenting 
on it it but i lost the link)
but it seems like a monstrous task and you would have to buy a guitar with 
it otherwise your precious acoustic will go through some major surgery!!
but for me if any of this companies comes out with an efficient tuning peg 
system accesible for all acoustic guitars then it will be a dream come 
true!!
Luis


> > I can't understand why no one has successfully
> invented a tuning peg that could auto tune your guitar.  I
> talked to Paul Smith (PRS) about this a while back and he
> said it was because of the weight of the tuner changing the
> tone of the guitar.  But I think I saw that Gibson had one
> coming out.  
> 
> It's available, wasn't invented by Gibson, but a
> German. Gibson licenced it. I can poke the name/link.  The
> system is available for some Fender & Gibson
> look/work-alike guitars. About a thousand euro, last I
> checked.
> There's the system made famous by Jimmy Page. Yikes,
> more memory losses.
> 
> 
> -- rgds,
> van Sinn