Re: OT: My master luthier instructor/Zen disciplinarian teacher and friend of the Universe William Eaton and one of his Youtube vids!

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

My understanding is that it takes about ten seconds to retune--you
active the tuning mode, strum the strings so the pickup can figure out
what pitch they're currently tuned to, and then the servomotors kick
in.  So, no mid-song retuning unless you can sit out for four bars or
so.

TH

On Jan 13, 2008 7:03 PM, Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Rick Walker wrote:
>
> > Bob Weigel wrote:
> > "But I think the whole idea is...with the Robo you can just hit a
> > button
> > while you are playing the thing and have it go drop D tuning for
> > instance"
> >
> > This is exactly what is exciting about this invention.   In that
> > sense, it allows
> > one (as with something like an Echoplex) to make music that has
> > never been made before.