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It doesn't change the definition, any guitarist could play one within a few minutes... It looks nothing like any other electric guitar, but every electric guitar shares its main features
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I probably wouldn't change the shapes that much - there is an ergonomic reason why most guitars look the way they do, and although I think things like the Gittler and the Teuffel Birdfish (or even the 'cricket bat' Steinbergers) are interesting as concepts, they are not really that practical as instruments, for most people.
And although I don't generally like active systems and find them a bit of an unnecessary solution in search of a problem, at least a properly buffered output - whatever type of pickups are used - would again produce consistency, and mean that cable loading and 'tone suck' wouldn't apply - and if the pickups were low-impedance/preamped types like EMGs then noise shouldn't be an issue.
I would try not to put *too* much complexity on-board though - built-in obsolescence becomes a problem. One of the reasons 1950s guitars can still be used so easily today - even the 'radical' ones like the Flying V - is because the technology is very simple.
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It would be very, very clever and very, very unreliable, and eventually @HarrySeven would have three (one pretty knackered) in his collection.
Hmm.. that's a hard one... I have tried thinking about re-designing stuff but it seems that guitarists arnt really interested... Like theres those Transformer guitars where the wings come off and the pickups are changeable.. Or those Fenders which had sound cards that changed the guitars sound... Even Gibson had a guitar with swappable pickups... None of it ever takes off cos (most) guitarists are very conservative in that way.
Man, even when I do simple things like turn the grain the opposite way on the body or my Half and Half guitars which have two completely different woods on each side. You should see the sort of comments I get about how they wont work cos they arnt the same as all other guitars... I haven't yet finished the Korina one (where I turned the body so the grain is vertical) but the Half and Half is fine... None of the issues people said would happen did.. And im sure it will be the same for the Korina one.
Its weird..
But I guess yes it would have to come down to something that has good functionality ideas so everything on the guitar is easily changeable or moveable...
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I always wanted to like the Steinberger for its minimalism, but the thick neck annoyed me, and the lack of body meant that I couldn't hold the guitar still.
Buffering is a good idea!
Low impedance pickups were mentioned. of course the Les Paul Recording (and Personal?) models had passive low impedance pickups, though you would need a microphone input or a matching transformer to plug them in.
Wouldn't sound like a "regular" guitar though, so weirdos like me would have them but most people wouldn't like it I guess.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Also modularity. Each string gets its own neck element - tuner at one end, bridge at the other, all on a little carbon fibre stick with mini frets on it. Or a ribbed steel tube - make them so that the ribs are the frets and you can mount as many side by side as you like.
I think novel ways of if capturing string vibration could be good. I was really interested in optical pickups a long time ago. Magnetic dampening is pretty much part of the sound of the electric guitar as we know it, doesn't mean it has to be.
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It'd be easy if I had a factory and a full order book.
The string impedance thing tickles my idea-cortex though. Wouldn't be too hard to mock something up to enable testing of that.
If I remember right it allowed you to use pretty much anything as a string.
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