Obsessed with digital guitar, misadigital.com (based in Sydney, Australia) created a unique stringless touchscreen guitar. The guitar sound is generated from the computer inside the guitar. It will be emulated using MIDI sound.

The Misa digital guitar is a MIDI controller. It must be plugged into a MIDI capable sound module. The sound of this instrument is limited only by what you connect to it.

Specifications: Linux kernel 2.6.31 (Gentoo); 24 frets; touchscreen; MIDI out; Ethernet; and SSH server.

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The guitar itself is CNC machined out of solid ABS plastic. This is an extremely solid body, not like injection moulded plastic which is thin, lightweight and hollow.

The screen is an 8.4″ LCD 800×600 resolution. The CPU is a 500MHz x86 compatible AMD Geode which makes life easier, I guess. The operating system is Gentoo Linux which I’ve stripped down to be as lean as possible. Graphics (framebuffer access) is done with DirectFB which acts as a fast layer on top of the hardware.

The neck is 144 “keycaps” sitting on top of a special keymat that I had tooled. They are not pressure sensitive – but I made the decision early on not to include this because I don’t feel it is neccessary, it would make the instrument harder to play and less reliable.

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The new Gibson Zoot Suit SG guitar is the ultimate for stage style and playability. The word “Zoot” is jazz slang meaning extravagant style to which this guitar encapsulates. At first glance, one might think that the unique coloration of the Zoot Suit guitar is simply a clever paint scheme. Incredibly though, there is no paint used on the guitar.

The Zoot Suit
The body of the Zoot Suit features a brand new body built with multiple birch wood laminate pieces (each one approximately .075” thick), each dyed with a different color then compressed and bonded together to form one solid block of wood. No paint is used. Each body is given two coats of satin nitrocellulose lacquer.

By reorienting the dyed laminates opposite from the body, you can view the pin-stripe color pattern through relief designs that have been machined out of the head veneers, which also allows maximum strength to the overall structure of the neck.

Featuring a brand new body built with multiple birch wood laminate, each laminate piece is dyed with a different color then compressed and bonded together to form one solid block of wood. Two coats of satin lacquer are then applied to provide a smooth finish and also help protect the body from any damage.

Unique
Standard sg features. The features are less in the mechanics thaqnin the body which is unique and gorgeous. Plays well,good action and tone.Im sure it will outlive me. It is a tad heavy if they could fix that with some routing like they did on the les paul.

Specs
Style: Double Cutaway SG
Body: Laminated layers of dyed birch
Neck: Set Mahogany
Neck joint angle: 3 degrees
Scale Length: 24-3/4 in.
Neck Profile: Traditional rounded
Fingerboard: Ebony
Fingerboard Radius: 12 in.
No. Of Frets: 22
Fingerboard Inlays: None
Nut: Corian
Nut Width: 1.69 in.
Neck Pickup: 496R humbucker
Bridge Pickup: 500T Humbucker
Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Toggle Pickup Selector
Knobs: Clear top hat
Hardware: Nickel
Tuners: Grover Rotomatic
Bridge: Tune-O-Matic
Tailpiece: Stopbar
Case: Gig bag

Estimate Price: $1,199.00

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Guitar For Your Children
Size is a primary concern when buying a guitar for a child under the age of ten. It is important that the guitar not be too large for your child or they will not be comfortable playing it. A starter pack is usually a pretty smart buy for your first guitar. Because you will need to buy the extras that come in a starter pack anyway, you end up saving money and getting everything you need in one convenient package. An electronic tuner is inexpensive and really vital for a young musician and we highly recommend that you get one in addition to your guitar.

The Guitar
The Rockwood Jr. is a scaled down 1/2 size guitar that is perfect for the young beginner. Just like the full size Rockwoods, the Jr. comes complete as a double cutaway, solid body made of select hardwood with 24 frets on a rosewood fretboard, covered tuners and is equipped with 1 single coil pickup. This package comes complete with all of the accessories needed to get playing today.

Includes HEG250 Mini Electric Guitar (30″, suitable for age 4-7), guitar gig bag, mini amplifier, pitch pipe, cable, strap, picks and extra strings.

Estimate Price: $100.99

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About Les Paul from wikipedia:

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009) known as Les Paul — was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which “made the sound of rock and roll possible”. He is credited with many recording innovations, including overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording.

His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many of the guitarists of the present day. He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s and they sold millions of records.

Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an “architect” and a “key inductee” along with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed.

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Paul’s innovative guitar, “The Log”, built after-hours in the Epiphone guitar factory in 1940, was one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed a solid-body guitar in the 1930s and Leo Fender also independently created his own in 1946. Although Paul approached the Gibson Guitar Corporation with his idea of a solid body electric guitar, they showed no interest until Fender began marketing its Esquire and Telecaster models. Gibson designed a guitar incorporating Paul’s suggestions in the early 1950s and presented it to him to try. He was impressed enough to sign a endorsement contract for what became the Gibson “Les Paul” model, originally only in a “gold-top” version (official name: “Les Paul Standard”), and agreed never to be seen playing in public, or be photographed, with anything other than a Gibson guitar.

The arrangement persisted until 1961, when declining sales prompted Gibson to change the design without Paul’s knowledge, creating a much thinner, lighter, and more-aggressive-looking instrument with two cutaway “horns” instead of one. Paul said he first saw the “new” Gibson Les Paul in a music-store window, and disliked it. Although his contract required him to pose with the guitar, he said it was not “his” instrument and asked Gibson to remove his name from the headstock. Others claimed that Paul ended his endorsement contract with Gibson during his divorce to avoid having his wife get his endorsement money. Gibson renamed the guitar “Gibson SG”, which stands for “Solid Guitar”, and it also became one of the company’s best sellers.

The original Gibson Les Paul-guitar design regained popularity when Eric Clapton began playing the instrument a few years later, although he also played an SG and an ES-335. Paul resumed his relationship with Gibson and endorsed the original Gibson Les Paul guitar from that point onwards. His personal Gibson Les Pauls were much modified by him—Paul always used his own self-wound pickups and customized methods of switching between pickups on his guitars[citation needed]. To this day, various models of Gibson Les Paul guitars are used all over the world by both novice and professional guitarists. A less-expensive version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar is also manufactured for Gibson’s lower-priced Epiphone brand.

2. Jimmy Page

3. Michael Romeo

4. Slash

5. Richie Blackmoore

6. Paul Gilbert

7. Yngwie Malmsteen

8. John Petrucci

9. Dimebag Darrell

10. Eddie Van Halen

Don’t worries Hammer Schlemmer has an iPod electric Guitar. The iPod electric guitar has ¾ scale common six string electric guitar. It can connect your iPod or other MP3 player. It has 4 inch battery powered speakers. You can play guitar and play music together.

It has 21 fret guitar, solid basswood body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard for optimal tone generation. If you buy this guitar you will get guitar strap, digital tuner, cables, plectrum and carrying case. This guitar cost about $199.

Now you can play your guitar along with your iPod. Have fun with this new experience.

Specifications:

• Six string guitar
• Injection-molded high-impact polymer composite body
• 26 1/2″ long
• 20 frets
• 1 3/4″ wide fretboard
• 12″ fret radius
• 20 1/4″ scale
• dual-coil pickup
• one concentric tone and volume control
• Size: 26 1/2″ L x 6″ W x 1 1/2″ D
• weight: 3 1/2 lbs

This is not a toy, it is like regular guitar. You can play this guitar as usual. With the special carrying case this guitar will cost you about $799.95.

The bad news is due to the popularity of this item, this guitar unexpectedly sold out.

Here are the most expensive guitars in zzounds.com:

1. EVH Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein™ Replica Guitar ($25,000), check latest price

Eddie Van Halen (EVH) collaborate with Fender to make the EVH brand guitars. This limited edition guitars are made only 300 instruments.

Ash body, maple bot-on nek, schaller tuning machine, 21 jumbo fret, 25.5 inch length.. more details

2. Gibson Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom VOS Signed by Jimmy Page ($25,000), check latest price

The result is this stunning “Black Beauty” with a slim-profile neck, Page BurstBucker pickups, gold Bigsby vibrato and an innovative six-position toggle that lets you isolate the neck and bridge pickups, or add the middle in any combination.

This signed guitars are very limited guitar. Only 25 guitars are available with the signed edition. more details

3. Gibson Johnny Winter Firebird Electric Guitar ($7,699), check latest price

The Gibson JOHNNY WINTER FIREBIRD  6-String Electric Guitar. Gibson custom shop recreation of the slide guitarists 1963 Gibson Firebird V.

Gibson custom shop recreation of the slide guitarists 1963 Gibson Firebird V, A tribute to a true blues master, Crown inlays, 2 humbucking pickups, Tune-o-matic bridge.  more details

The main idea is recording your guitar play and makes it as ringtone. Because the ringtone is generated by your guitar sound, your mobile phone must support wave ringtone. The polyphonic ringtones cell phone will not support.

What do you need to make your own guitar ringtone?

1. Guitar
2. Guitar Cable ¼ inch male mono to ¼ inch male mono
3. Interconnect cable ¼ inch female mono to 1/8 inch male stereo
4. Personal Computer (Ms Windows)

Step by step recording:

1. Plug your guitar cable and interconnect cable to your PC’s microphone input. Try to play your guitar. Configure until your PC produce the guitar sound.
   
2. Start “Sound Recorder” software. (Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder). Press record button, play your guitar and start recording.
3. Record your guitar sound about 1-2 minutes. Save as .wav file.
4. Upload to your mobile phone. Your own ringtone ready to be used.

Above recording steps is the primitive way to make your own ringtone. To get best result you can download more advanced recording software. You can create many guitar ringtone styles. You can create classical guitar ringtones, hip hop ringtones, even dance ringtones with your guitar.
Happy create your very own ringtone!

The Speedster is the electric evolution of our Pro-Series. Known best for its removable “tear drop” upper arm support and engine turned accents, the Speedster is loaded with a high output blade humbucker for the classic tones of today and yesterday. With the look, feel, and sound of a full size solid body electric, the Speedster is great for the rocker on the run. Check reviews!

Features:
It has 22 frets, with single volume and tone controls and a raised cord jack.
The body is a one-piece carving from maple with a pal ferro fretboard with screwed in separate pieces that serve as guards for the tuners and a detachable arm rest. The neck is really fine–24 2/4 inch scale, but with a slimmer profile than a Gibson, closer to Fender Strat. Very nice design combo. soft case, instruction book (needed) and your very own pick. Click here for more features!

Quality:
It comes with a single-coil sized hot rail humbucker that sounds pretty thin. As a result, this would never be a gigging guitar. But in combination with Pandora and iPod, it is extremely compact and goes with everywhere. The action is adjustable by lowering or raising the roller bridge (Very cool).

From the neck, paint, pick up and over all sound it is amazing. If you are looking for something smaller than the acoustics and want that electric feel and sound this is it. If you buy a Korg PX3 and hook it up to your IPod you can rock the night away and never disturb a soul. The neck is full-sized, so it works fine for the fat-fingered. The action was fantastic right from the store. Check Latest Price.

The tuning pegs are awkwardly positioned making it a bit of a chore to tune and the rolling bridge and wrap-around string configuration can cause inconsistent string-tension making tuning even worse. But it’s well worth it to lose the headstock and save on precious space. And heck, it’s still easier to tune than a guitar with a floating trem.

Sound:
Plug in your headphones so you dont bother anyone else and it still sounds completely amazing! This feels and sounds better than Ibanez solid body or Epiphone 335 clone. Someone has taken to playing this guitar more and more around the house in addition to when traveling. Keeps its tune better than feared. Great work Traveler! It sounds great for a single pick-up electric guitar.

Ease of Use:
Takes a while to get used to the unusual tuning mechanism, but great once you are used to it. Extremely easy unlined the backpacker or the Washburn rover

Value:
Great travel guitar. Check latest price.

Desirability:
Because of the size and conveniences of this guitar, you will take it everywhere and play more often. Because you play more often you will get better.

Overall:
Best travel guitar in the world. The thing with like most about the Speedster is its extreme portability and convenience, yet it feels neck-wise like full-size guitars. The compared the Speedster to the Steinberger Spirit, but the neck was not the same at all. The wish it had twin humbuckers.

Technical Info:
Neck Through Body: Eastern American Hard Maple
Fingerboard: Pao Ferro
Frets: 22-medium
Scale Length: 24 3/4 in.
Fingerboard Inlays: Pearloid
Neck Width at Nut: 1 3/4 in.
Body Width: 7 1/2 in.
Length: 28 in.
Weight: 4 lbs.
Pick-ups: Custom Dual Rail Humbucker
Hardware: Chrome
Electronics: Volume/Tone
All Traveler guitars come with the heavy duty nylon carry bag

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