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Pocketstrings Helps You Learn Guitar by Putting the Frets in Your Pocket

Learning to play the guitar can be very challenging. It may have just six strings, but there are hundreds of positions and fingering combinations as well as different strumming patterns that you have to remember. That’s probably why I don’t play guitar.…

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January 30th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Smart String Upstages Your Ordinary Measuring Tape

Smart String

Who would think that the day would come that measuring tapes would be rendered, well, second rate or second class when it comes to measuring? After all, that was the only reason and purpose for which they were created.…

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August 19th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

33% Guitar + 33% Mandolin + 33% Theremin = 100% Awesome

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The guys over at synthopia hunted up this wondrous electrical musical oddity, and I love it.

The Destroyer combines an electric guitar, mandolin and that wonderful outer-spacey-squealy instrument – the theremin – in one compact package.

Handmade by guitar artist Mark Dalzell, The Destroyer is has two necks – one…

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May 17th, 2010 by: Technabob

String Trio Turns Your iPhone Into an Air Violin

We’ve featured a variety of iPhone musical instruments around here, including pianos, guitars, drums, and even ocarinas, but this is the first time I’ve come across an app that lets you play your iPhone like it was a violin, viola or cello.

Just load up greySox String Trio, choose a…

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December 28th, 2009 by: Technabob

Rock Band Guitar String Mod Kit Available for Purchase

Rock Band Guitar String Mod by A4AJ

I’m as addicted to Rock Band… as the next gaming geek, but I still wish the strum bar on the game’s Fender Stratocaster felt more like a real guitar string. Now you get your hands on a mod kit which will let you swap out the plastic strum bar with

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March 16th, 2008 by: Technabob

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