Comments on: The Art of Tuning http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2010/05/the-art-of-tuning.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2010/05/the-art-of-tuning.html/comment-page-1#comment-14094 Daniel Sat, 29 May 2010 00:08:12 +0000 http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/?p=3938#comment-14094 I was skeptical of this idea too just hearing what it is, but reading more about it and watching the video on their website I'm starting to believe it might actually work. This product seems to be less for bedroom-picking than for performance. Certainly, for me, I'd rather tune a guitar by ear if I'm just hacking away at home, because I kind of enjoy it. But onstage tuning by ear is a bad idea, and since most performers use a floor or rack tuner anyway, it's a short step to a bridge designed to keep the guitar in tune. What I don't really understand is how they can need so much venture capital to put this idea into practice. Since the device is mechanical, not electronic, it doesn't seem like it would be very expensive to manufacture, and the design work seems to be done already. Is all that money for their marketing budget, or. . . ? I was skeptical of this idea too just hearing what it is, but reading more about it and watching the video on their website I’m starting to believe it might actually work.

This product seems to be less for bedroom-picking than for performance. Certainly, for me, I’d rather tune a guitar by ear if I’m just hacking away at home, because I kind of enjoy it. But onstage tuning by ear is a bad idea, and since most performers use a floor or rack tuner anyway, it’s a short step to a bridge designed to keep the guitar in tune.

What I don’t really understand is how they can need so much venture capital to put this idea into practice. Since the device is mechanical, not electronic, it doesn’t seem like it would be very expensive to manufacture, and the design work seems to be done already. Is all that money for their marketing budget, or. . . ?

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