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The Gibson Robot Guitar is set to hit store shelves on December 7, 2008. The guitar is touted as a revolution in guitar making: the first guitar with robot technology.  Sounds so cool – but what exactly does it mean?

“The story” on the Gibson website only hints at what it might do.

Since the dawn of the instrument, musicians have come to accept the guitar’s imperfections and lack of tonal precision as necessary evils. Onstage and off, guitarists have fought to stay in tune. Every music lover and performer has had to suffer through the show—halting, mood-killing atonal droning of a loudly amped guitar being brought into tune. And in the studio, or at home, imprecise intonation throws the guitar in and out of tune, up and down the neck, as the instrument requires tweaking with each season and at times with each string change.

It is, essentially, a self tuning guitar.

The tag line for the product is, “All you have to do it play,” which would infer that the tuning and other time consuming upkeep takes care of itself.  It’s sort of like a self cleaning oven without all that stink.  The juicy details of how this is done and the other capabilities and implications are as of yet – unknown.

Special first run limited editions of the guitar will be available on December 7th in select locations throughout the US and Europe.  The regular old version (minus the fancy first edition title and probably more finely tuned by then) will follow in early 2008.

Now I just need to learn how to play the guitar in the next 23 days.

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