Here’s a piece of news both petrol heads and guitar heads will want to hear about. John Oates, one half of Hall & Oates who have recently received a custom 1960 356 from Emory Motorsports, is setting up a “Cars of the Rock Stars” exhibit at the 2019 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The exhibition, which will be held between March 9 and 10 at the Amelia Island Ritz Carlton Hotel, will feature Oates’s custom 1960 Emory Outlaw Porsche 356 Cabriolet alongside 200+ pre-1974 cars including famous cars owned by notable musicians with some of the guitars they played. Continue reading Check Out John Oates’ Custom Light-emitting Fender Electric Guitar
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Built-in Speaker Lets You Play This Electric Guitar Whenever, Wherever
Whether you are a busker who love to show off your axe-shredding skill to random strangers, or a musician who have sudden outburst of inspiration in the oddest places, I think the GuitarmaDillo Self-amplified Electric Guitar by ElectroPhonic is the musical instrument of choice for you. I mean, seriously, why wouldn’t it be? Imagine an electric guitar with a built-in AMP-1 analog preamp and 18W power amp with effects that lets you play whenever, wherever, and a Carolina Poplar body protected by an armor-like coating that you will never have to babysit it. Continue reading Built-in Speaker Lets You Play This Electric Guitar Whenever, Wherever
Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster: It’s An Electric Acoustic Telecaster! ’nuff Said
The glitz and glamor of a rock star is one thing, the hassle of switching guitars for acoustic and electric sound is another. I tell you what: keep the glitz and glamor, but skip the guitar switching with this: Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster. Yes, it is an electric acoustic stringed axe, but this ain’t no ordinary electric acoustic. It is the perfect hybrid of an acoustic and Fender’s iconic Telecaster which is, in Fender’s own words, “an entirely new instrument that blurs the lines between acoustic and electric guitars.” Continue reading Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster: It’s An Electric Acoustic Telecaster! ’nuff Said
Dude Created A Custom Electric Guitar With 1200 Colored Pencils
One-of-a-kind electric guitars are not new. We have seen some pretty impressive custom guitar bodies thus far. No. Flying V isn’t one-of-a-kind guitar, but cardboard, “molten lava,” and skateboard guitar bodies are, and so is this: 1200 colored pencils guitar body. Redditor (Rockmann1), Imgur user (flyjumper) and YouTuber Burls Art has built himself a Fender Stratocaster-style electric guitar that has a body crafted out of 1,200 Crayola Colored Pencils. Continue reading Dude Created A Custom Electric Guitar With 1200 Colored Pencils
An Italian Company Wants To Put A Synthesizer On Your Wrist For $540
Just when we thought pocket-size is the smallest a synthesizer can get, one Italian company called Audioweld (who has watchmaking background, btw) takes synthesizer to the next level of small. How small? Well, it is small enough to be worn on the wrist and hence the name Synthwatch. Synthwatch has a functional seven-key keyboard, thus effectively making it a wrist-worn keyboard. The keys allow you to create tunes via a companion app on both Android and iOS. Continue reading An Italian Company Wants To Put A Synthesizer On Your Wrist For $540
Teenage Engineering Takes Synthesizer To Next Level With OP-Z
Three years in the making, Teenage Engineering’s newest multimedia synthesizer and sequencer, OP-Z, is finally ready. A follow up to the Swedish company’s first portable all-in-one OP-1 released six years ago, OP-Z is the first stand-alone 16-track sequencer that lets you pull off synchronized live composition of music, visuals, and lights, and doing so while remaining ultra portable. It is impossibly compact, measuring just 212.5 mm (8.37 inches) wide, 57.5 mm (2.26 inches) deep and 10 mm (0.39-inch) thin, and tips the scales at 850g (around 1.87 lbs). Continue reading Teenage Engineering Takes Synthesizer To Next Level With OP-Z
Ava Is Not Your Usual Ukulele. It’s Electric And Very Unusual Looking
Forget about Google Translator. It is said that wherever you go, music is the universal language. So, pack your huge-ass piano and hit the road because, you are about to connect with people. Oh, not really. You can’t pack a piano, can you? You could go the iPad way, or guitar sounds good too, but imagine leaving your guitar at the mercy of baggage handlers. Tell you what. Perhaps this ukulele here, called Ava, could be a better travel companion candidate. Continue reading Ava Is Not Your Usual Ukulele. It’s Electric And Very Unusual Looking
Singing Furby Organ Is Definitely Way More Creepier Than Mogwai
I am sure you are familiar with Furby toys. The adorable “intelligent” toy creature from Tiger Electronics that has an uncanny resemblance to the what was.once a nightmare to children, making them too afraid to let their mum wash their soft toys. Fast forward a few decades later, the cute-turned-menace is back to haunt the kids who are all grown up now. And it is not because, Gremlins is back on the silver screen. It is because of Sam Battle. The hacker-musician, who is also the man behind the YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer, has painstakingly hacked 44 Furby toys using “the fully patent void formant furby fusion synthesis brain modification surgery procedure” to create what is known as the world’s first singing Furby organ. Continue reading Singing Furby Organ Is Definitely Way More Creepier Than Mogwai
Guy Plays A Four-neck Bass Guitar With One String Per Neck Because, He Can
Here’s a video of YouTuber David504 playing a quadruple neck bass guitar. Now, the thing is having two, three, or even four-neck bass guitar shouldn’t be an alien thing, although they are rare and really, unnecessary, but David504’s Quadruple Neck Bass is, ermmm, slightly different, or weird, even. Why? Because, while it has four necks, it has just four strings which means, there is only one string per neck. Wait, what??? This begs the question: is four-neck better than one? Does it makes it sounds better? Or was it just a test of a bassist’s finger skills? I am not sure. Continue reading Guy Plays A Four-neck Bass Guitar With One String Per Neck Because, He Can
Finally, A Ukulele That Fits What It Is Meant To Do: Travel And Doing So Without Breaking The Bank
When we talk about apocalypse, we almost always speak of survival tools. No doubt survival tools are requisites to our continual survival, but what’s life without music? We would probably go into psychological meltdown even before the walking dead devours us. Having said that, it would pointless if your trusty, most popular travel instrument, the Ukulele, can’t take a bout of zombie attack. I mean, seriously, you will likely, unconsciously, use whatever you have on you to fend off the undead and that includes using your precious Ukulele. However, that won’t be an issue if your Ukulele is the KLOS Tenor Ukulele, the world’s first durable, carbon fiber ukulele. Continue reading Finally, A Ukulele That Fits What It Is Meant To Do: Travel And Doing So Without Breaking The Bank