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Guitar chord forum - chordie → Guitars and accessories → Gibson Min-Etune
Anyone heard of this thing?
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/min-etune.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g08c4lqfJw4.
Couldn't find a price for the whole kit itself. I'm sure it's not cheap. Replacement parts are available at a pretty penny. Tuners $40 each, battery $40, charger $20. Basically turns any guitar into a robot. Cool idea, nifty gadget, fun to watch it work, but really?
That's quite interesting. It would make life much easier, but I wonder what it's like to string the guitar if there's any issues there. I looked on the web and it appears you need to buy a Gibson with it already installed. Price range is $825 USED... and up of course. A Les Paul 60's Tribute with the min-Etune starts at around 1K. I imagine Gibson would be happy to custom install one for a rather expensive fee.
Correction, that's the price without the Min-Etune... it's $2K with it! AHHH!
This looks like the "Mother of all Gadgets". For what little time and effort it takes to tune up with a little clip-on, battery-operated tuner, this thing just seems silly.
Gibson came out with the robot guitars a couple years ago. Saw no need for one then and although this is cool I see no need to change. I'll keep my stock tuners on my Ovation and use the money these would cost to buy something important. Like another guitar.
I saw one similer acouple of months ago and it was in a Populer Science issue seems the price was a lot less but it was not a Gibson. I have thrown out that issue,but maybe it can be found online.
I think if you cant tune your guitar you might consider playing drums
I can see where this could be useful at times and to different people. It all depends what you are trying to do. But if you only use simple standard tuning I don't think it's worth it. Down side is it's new technology and probably has lots of flaws still not completely worked out. But that doesn't stop a company from putting it out. Also not going to be cost effective. I wonder how many will actually be sold ?
Joe
Just noticed on Epiphone's site that they're including Min-Etune gadgetry on a lot of their "New for 2014" models. I can't imagine something like this would motivate a buyer to choose one instrument over another, but everyone's different.
I do not see them as that great for your average player I think they would be a good asset if you are a pro or performing a lot on open mike nights etc.
I think if you cant tune your guitar you might consider playing drums
Tuning drums is a MOTHER compared tgo a guitar! LOLOLOL
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