![]() ![]() ![]() The Shadow Guitar to MIDI System was launched, midst no little excitement, at the Frankfurt Fair earlier this year, and is just beginning to be seen in UK music stores. Now that guitarists have, courtesy of ever-advancing technology, the potential to access the wonderful world of sound synthesis, any related discussion usually comes to the conclusion that it's fine, as long as (a) it's a magic box I can plug straight into (b) I can still use my favourite guitars without seeing large wodges of precious mahogany routed out to accept onboard electronics (c) I don't have to throw my playing technique out of the window and completely relearn (d) it doesn't hurt deep in the purse and (e) it works without giving me brain damage. ![]() Acoustics don't change much either, do they? There has as yet been no mega-selling guitar which wasn't visibly derived from a Strat, Les Paul or 335-type concept. Witness many supposed innovations - constructional, electronic and cosmetic - over recent years which have not enjoyed mass appeal, due, one could argue, to a realisation (made all the more vivid when it involved parting with large piles of cash for the privilege!) that one's basic competence and means of expression relies on two hands doing the right things with a set of strings mounted on a structure of (usually) wood. Guitarists tend, by nature of their craft maybe, to be a pretty conservative and techno-shy lot. ![]()
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