I have gone through 1000 comments and I will answer some of the ones that is recurring a ton. Q: Why did you not make the guitar be able to switch between guitar, bass and fretless with the motor? A: That was the original intend of the motor, we had encoder and code all set up. However, I had to get this video out this year because I had already delayed it several months for the sponsor. I also spent 1 week burning up motor drivers and potentiometers because the first stepper I got was overpowered for the drivers. I’m also bd at electronics. But one truly cool thing with positioning and stuff Is that you could have presets of neck movements. Like rhythmic spinning back and forth in patterns that fits the song? Q: You should have used a slip ring for the pickups, it allows cables to spin. A: This was the first thing that was tried, but I cut it from the vid. A slipring would work fine, it would just be slightly more complicated to integrate into the design VS bluetooth. However a slipring also introduces noise when spinning. I couldn’t hear any real life improvement vs the wireless system so I just went with the easiest for now. Q: The guitar pickup should be mounted on the guitar in a curvature so only the front facing strings makes sound. A: This was the first approach but some downsides didn’t make this solution good when going into the details. curved pickups to this degree does not exist currently so you would have to invent a new method of making pickups. This would add 3-4 weeks to project minimum. The height of the pickups is extremely important. If you look at your electric guitar you can see that each pickup is adjusted to the 1/10 of a millimeter for that particular string. If the pickups doesn’t move with the string. The loudness would be impossible to balance. Using single pickups, the string could land inbetween the pickups. Even if ratcheting design was used. The string spacing is not the same on bass section as guitar section. I personally was more into the idea of spin chords and stuff and it wouldn’t work with this idea. Q: You should have done xxx it would be way more practical. A: This guitar is not made to be sold or practical. It’s entertainment engineering and I do it just because ‘it would be cool if’. Q: I want to buy it, how much? A: The cost would be ridiculous to buy this particular one. I think in total we put in 800 hours into this? But if you are simply interested in how much it would cost to build another version. I can try to break it down. Headless tuners/bridges = 700-1200 USD in total depending on brand. Custom made pickups = 450USD Strings: 150 USD for a set ( high price for the giga thick strings) Wireless system = 150 USD or something Besides this, we mostly used PLA and wood. You could of course find workarounds to keep prices lower. But if you count labour cost of workarounds it would end up even more expensive likely.
No joke nice prototype I think people would buy that it’s a novelty but it looks fun. In my opinion, it will be sick as heck if there was like a button on the guitar, you could press that spins the neck to the exact position you want it. Really neat. Good job it’s hilarious. And I’m not kidding. I think people would buy that it’s funny and looks like it’s fun just as a joke even. You better put a patent on that lol no joke you should that’s impressive. You can make millions of dollars just selling that thing as a joke you gotta be kidding me. Lock it down now it doesn’t cost a lot of money.
I am not especially musical but I find your videos fascinating. It's the engineering aspect that interests me but even I can see a LOT of potential with this invention in the right musical hands. And that's what this is: a musical invention--a NEW instrument. Put this out there. Someone is going to show interest. I can foresee a bit more work on figuring out how best to control the spinning but that's relatively easy with modern hardware and programming. The hard part is done and it works! Don't be surprised if you are contacted by investors who want to take your prototype and bring it to market. Choose wisely and don't give up your ownership. You are an inventor. Take inspiration from other inventors who came before you, learn their stories and don't get stuck in a bad deal that sounds like a great deal at the time. You might even reach out to some of them. James Dyson comes to mind. He had to fight to keep his patents but he managed it. You will too. Don't just take the first deal you're offered because it is first. It likely won't be the best for you.
You just invented a new string instrument. Literally. This is legitimately a new instrument. Imagine what kind of music can be played on it in ten years? Fifty? This is a masterable instrument. Give people the chance to learn this thing and it will be AMAZING.
Since this is inspired by someone else's idea, this is innovation, not invention. But I do agree that this could be awesome for future musicians for the versatility of sound ✨
@@MrDegsy69 From the point of view of the player, I think it already is clockwise. But yeah was also thinking that. Of course your thumb is going to be there, but still. And it'd also make sense to me, since it'd be a downstroke, which I think of as "the normal" way to strike chords. =)
Hey, engineer here. Instead of making it spin use a pedal board to trigger preset locations so you can quickly switch back and forth to different ranges
This is the first of your videos that I have stumbled across and Ive got to admit, you are one sick mofo. The world needs more people like you. You have what I have always found missing in myself, namely that spark of creative genius. At 73 years old with tendonitis in my arms and arthritis in my hands, i will never add to what your instrument will become, but I will watch the web with great interest as to how and in which direction it will launch. My sincerest thanks for sharing your work with us. I wish you every success.
@@J.C... damn bro, people go through shit just like you do, give them the same grace you wish people gave you. if you can't manage that, maybe just don't watch the content you don't like?
Hell Yeah...Its not just guitar!!! It's bass guitar, contrabass, cello, violin and guitar in one instrument!!! And he could use loop pedal to play them all at the same time!!! Just Genius!!! 👏👏👏
It's like someone badly described a hurdy gurdy as something like "an instrument with a bit that rotates and a bunch of strings" and you were like "sure I can make that!". I love how it sounded with the bow
@@keirasullivan7953 I'd definitely have the motor spinning the other way, that way it's not anywhere nearly as likely to catch a finger because the default direction of motion would pull the finger away from the string rather than push it into the string.
You’re right, I was thinking you could get one of those electronic ebows that make it sound like you’ve got a constant drone on the strings. And then was trying to remember what sound that would be similar to. And it would be like he had invented the hurdy-gurdy. 😂
I'm gonna tell my kids and grandchildren in the future that I was lucky enough to witness one of the coolest guitar concepts I've ever seen. The amount of effort, patience and trials you guys spent on this is so unbelievable. Hats off.
Guys we're in the Golden Era of this guitar!... before they require a big red ugly killswitch and a 30 minute safety training video on pinch points - amazing engineering
Duuuude when I saw this comment I was so confused because the 2 of us have the exact same profile pic, and the comment would also kinda be something I would I would write too *LMFAOOOO*
15:23 Congrats, you created the stringed harmonica. Side note, I've seen something similar that created what a kaleidoscope looks like looking inside it.
Dude, this is so inspirational, I've seen you go from awkwardly mutilating pianos to making new, completely wild instruments. I can totally see people figuring out awesome ways to play this! You're one of my favorite creators, for sure! I also appreciate the mix of laser cutting and 3d printing, and the short but dark Twin Towers joke. Everything in this video was on point!
I love how Matthias shows his thought process, all the difficulties, all the help he got, everything that goes into engineering. And then everything is nicely condensed into a short video with no unnecessary filling and some well placed humor. Never thought that my favorite engineering channel would be a guy making absurd instruments!
This man just made an inventory and all the people that are part of the building of it specially mattias are so cool, the new instrument is even more wow-ers + the process and the actual progress really fascinating
12:22 "this is probably dangerous" is literally my favorite phrase to come out of any of your guitar or piano videos, literally the definition of this channel to me 😂
I haven't been this impressed in quite a while. Love that you saw a crazy idea and thought of making it a reality and actually worked through worked through it! Just amazing man 🙌🏼
I'm so proud of you for making it actually playable after all of those community posts describing the issues! Great job finishing it out in the end, and PLEASE reach out directly to Davie and Rob Scallon. Those madmen are likely to be very interested in attempting this!
Bro your editing went to a whole new level. Such good quality video. Your previous videos were good too, but it’s so much better now! ✨broken and cylindrical✨
as a product designer for the past 25+ years....this is sooooo sick! nicely executed. I can see more iterations in the future! Love the innovation. Love your failures and how you made improvements.
I love that you let your creativity guide you and you made it no matter what the obstacles were you stuck to it. You did amazing inventions and fails and success in the end. I am sure just understanding the instrument in any way to improve it would be the next step… But even if that’s it, you make a little bit of noise with something at the end and you’re fine with that. I don’t feel so bad after losing all the money I’ve lost on all the things I’ve tried to do, lol thanks for the inspiration to stay creative and not feel deal about failing in your life on your creative endeavors because it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved it at all
A guitar neck has a very slight bow to it to allow the string to vibrate. Being round you could work that slight bow or slightly concave the middle of the finger board. It would probably only need to slightly taper in 1/64 in the middle of the neck all around. This would be fun to work on. Great job.
Yeah this is probably your best video so far, because this went beyond a novelty just for the memes, you've created something genuinely playable (with a lot of practice, of course). This is actually so awesome.
I think the water piano was even crazier. That one really blew my mind, this ....well, still miles above my lazy old head, but not as satisfying as the water grand piano, haha! I wish i had an ounce of this boy's mental capacities. Or even a gram would do.
@@lowandodor1150 The water and electric piano is crazier in a sense, but it has no real use beyond novelty, it's hardly hold a tune. This guitar on the other hand did actually hold up, playable, and has reasonable sound output which has a real potential for use in actual musical session, which is why i agree this is so far his best creation.
11:50 to 11:55 feels like the very beginning of what music played on a revolving guitar would sound like way into the future. Like, a flawless transition from guitar to bass and back. This could be in a sci-fi movie!
Right like a duet of both layers next to some drum kit being played. A seedy space western ost for a dive bar in some poor district of a mega building.
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Dude! This might actually have been the first REAL invention in string instruments in over... maybe 2 or 5 decades at least! PLEASE get this out to Davie and Rob. They will have sooooo much fun with this, and I hope to see it in casual music videos in like 10 years from now, being played as if things have always been this way
a couple years ago some scientist made a spiderweb shaped harp like instrument while they were studying how spiders sense things on their web, it doesn't sound great but it is new
@@TheDan14 That actually sound kind of cool, I love spiders, but, if I play with girl’s g string and find a new way to make it make a sound with midi or something how great is that? If I take a shit and when I flush the toilet have the toilet mechanically make a jingle, is that a brilliant new thing? No, because it would sound like shit. I know those weren’t that funnyof examples but you get my point. If it sounds like shit, what is the point really? It’s a rhetorical question, just my .02
Suggestion: I hear a high noise floor being picked up when you are playing. Having individual pickups means you can control how you wire them. You could make pairs with one of them phase swapped, it would work like a humbucker and cancel the background noise. I will assume you just wired them all in paralell and maybe it made the impedance way lower than what should be expected for a guitar transmitter too. After all this work, should at least be worth a try, wiring pickup pairs in series and opposed phase as I said, and then in paralell with the next pair, then in series with the next set and etc. If you can get your hands on a multimeter and measure the coil resistance, it might be worth arrange your sets to hit the 8-14K ohms in total when its all connected. I love your creativity and admire your discipline in building such challenge concepts in real life. Please keep it up o/
You’re right. I just wired then in parallel! I did get a big book about guitar electronics. But I never read it. But it gets worse. The pickups are not even soldered, I just twisted them together and used wago clips to make the connections😂 The good news with this is that from here on, it can only get better. Thanks for the advice!🙏🙏
Some design addition ideas: 1. Add a rigid half cylinder shaped support from the body asking the neck to the end to keep from touching strings you're not actively playing as well as to brace the neck. It would also allow for a more stylish end that may or may not rotate. 2. Use position sensors to only activate the pickups on strings you're playing to reduce noise from ones you're handling with the web of your hand. 3. Program rotational stops using a stepper motor to rotate to specific locations to play bass or guitar and activate using the pedal position. This way you can quickly and accurately jump to where you want it to go in addition to free or motorized spinning.
Maybe build a rig for the pickups that's on the outside of the neck instead of on it? So the pickups stay stationary while the strings move underneath it
@@yannickdewit7089 Not sure how bad the effect would be but that would cause a doppler shift as the string moves away from one pickup and towards another.
I can't believe how much you evolved as a youtuber since your first viral. REALLY great job, not only on your projects, but as a content creator itself, awesome work dude.
This is one of the most unique guitar-related things that I have ever seen. You deserve some type of award for the creation of this thing. I hope you can make some sort of deal with a company to produce these instruments and make them available to the entire world!
This is why we come here: to get valuable insights just like this! Haha! 🤣 But seriously, cool build! Even though I have big hands (to go along with being 1.94M tall (6'4")), it would be a real bugger to get used to such a thick neck -- and my hand positions can be bad enough as it is on a normal neck!
Recommendations: Stepper motor, pedal or button to have a few key controls. 1. move to specific rotation, so your hands can jump back to a specific feature. 2. Try harmonics while its spinning. I imagine a slight offset on the timing for a soft finger rest and pick impact, 3. spinnning stably, pick locked in place hits every string as it passes. use the slide to set the not (use a rounded slide, your not one a flat guitar :D ) and also have a cushion or something to mute the string after it passes. using the slide to change the primary note, and then with the second hand, align the finger to various harmonics points. Sounding crazy, but this looks pretty awesome, and like its the birth of a new guitar, with just a few kinks to work out, and figure out a real calling. And just flat out, the bottom of this is looking incredible.
Not only does Mattias Krantz make guitar strings of horse hair, put helium in a guitar, make a gas electric guitar, make a guitar string out of spider webs, he also make a spinning base guitar. This really indicates that this guy is a legend and a master of creating guitars as well as guitar strings.
@@hazardeur Took him three iterations of this to reinvent the truss rod, a central component of most guitars for about a century, so you might be right. 😅
I think this is the closest to "an actual thing" you've ever built, and I honestly could see this being an actually performable instrument. I mean, it got structure, it got function, hegg it even looks hella cool!
That's actually pretty genius dude I love a chance to learn how to play it father was a piano tuner I was lost in what to do one day he brought me an electric guitar home. Can't live with it can't live without it
Suggestion: You should be able to program the motor to move a set distance and then stop. This way you can have a button (or buttons) on the ground that changes it over to the next set of strings. If you want it to still be able to cycle freely you'd need to program it to know where each set of strings are.
I had the exact same idea. Put in a Servo and an encoder. Than make small buttons for 1 turn. 1/2 turn, 1/4 turn or what ever seems practical. I think Arduino should be capable. With a powerbank still remote.
@@StinkyHeXoR I was looking for this comment, there is a way to make this work like you say with a stepper motor, I imagine you'd have to push the specific buttons with you foot or maybe an eye piece and look at the button like people with a disability do 😀 Where there is a crazy will there is a way
This is unironically one of your best ideas yet. Like if someone properly skilled at guitar would sit down and learn this some banger ass tunes could be made
the problem at 3:04 is an easy fix, use a 'rotary' connection (like the horn in your cars' steering wheel); that way the wires are still, and you have a commutator which moves, while maintaining connection, and not stressing out the wires 🙂
You're too humble for what you've just done. I'm sure you'll see your invention go far as people put technique and improve on it. I can see myself writing insanely original riffs on this thing. Keep rocking. 🤘
If I see and hear some prodigy making good music on it I will be amazed by the craftsmanship and musicianship. This is like a StarWars Jazz Bar moment.
This is the kind of video that truly feels like the beginning of something. I'm convinced that any instrument deemed useless is simply an instrument that hasn't found its musician. But this, it's an actually interesting evolution on the concept of guitar. Imagine if the motor could store positions and rotate to presets, or using other types of resonance instead of only pickups. At the very least, this is the type of instrument someone like Hans Zimmer could use to create his landmark exotic sounds. It's an incredible project, and one of the things that make humanity worth saving: all the knowledge accrued along the ages, multiple modern inventions, all serving the construction of a wild project. Like a literal dream being built. Love ya Mattias.
my jaw is on the FLOOR man. i remember when you first posted a picture about a 360 guitar prototype and i was like "😳 he's insane", and i mean that affectionately lol because i knew right then and there that you *would* make it happen. and let me tell you, you didn't disappoint. this guitar is absolutely bonkers in the best way possible. the whole video had me in disbelief. also your editing has gone from like a hundred to a thousand. this was so entertaining to watch! i especially like how you seem more comfortable in front of the camera, if that makes sense. it really feels like we're there with you in your workshop seeing the magic happen. so yeah my dude, i still can't believe you made this. can't wait to see what journey you take your new creation on!
I'm in an awe on both the incredible built, but also the quality and style of the video production. You're leveling up on both fields and it's awesome to witness you in the process. Keep it up and have fun in the process :D
It feels like this is a legit new instrument. The sound you made with the bow feels like something that if you continued in "cello pose", with some sort of control on the spin (not clicking, but maybe a gentle friction to stop on each string), it could create a new kind of playing!
@@R__A hurdy gurdy or zampogna is the violin arc converted in a continuos rotating arc and the strings stay static. so rotating the strings and usign a normal arc or a guitar pic is what this youtuber did. Now, i think that using statick picks as keyboard like a clavier and rotating the strings would be a cont would be epic too ruclips.net/video/TfKSa0t8-N0/видео.html
This is actually pretty cool. It needs longitudinal fret markers to identify which strings are which, that way someone could probably learn to hit the right strings consistently with some practice.
instead of a regular motor, use a stepper motor and g-code to program specific spin distances on a button pedal based on songs you want to play. Every time you press the button, it turns a perfect number of strings around based on the code. Please make another video about this thing, it’s awesome.
A stepper motor is exactly what this needs. You don't want to go by feel, you want to know exactly where everything is going to be after you step on the pedal.
Oh man, this is incredible. You literally just created a new musical instrument with so much new potential. I can see this actually becoming a thing and people buying these guitars in the future. You should patent or license it or sth.
Yeah, he should DEFINITELY patent the living *shit* out of everything about this masterpiece. It's completely insane, and wonderful, that's why I know someone will steal the idea unless it's protected.
@PhpGtr right now, I'm on your side, this thing seems silly. Buuut, I'll bet there's plenty of people that said the same thing about the theramin. Never know. Someone might crack it.
@@PhpGtr Got some pretty unique sounds out of this, and it's only the first build with an unpracticed hand. While i'm not expecting anything that exceeds the norm, i'm certain this could carve it's own little niche community.
Your profession sounds just as cool as this guitar! I bet your story would make a very interesting video. I've never met a professional guitar craftsman.
@@olliefoxx7165 I had a good career, had a lot of press, won many awards and did well, but it made me very sick. I developed allergy related asthma due to working with all of the tropical woods for so many years. That was a long time ago now though, you move on... Thank you!
you have invented a new way to play guitar and now I want one in my collection and I want to write music with it. props to you we need more musical mad scientists like you my friend
I can't imagine there being a dislike in this video. This is UNREAL! The hundreds of hours to make this thing and coming out in the end with an actual workable instrument is INSANE!!!
your one-liners had me ROFL. " order it so you can smoke some second-hand plywood too." "This thing is going to be stiffer than other materials that is less stiff." "This thing is getting closer and closer to an airport ban" "I built the guitar body with a technique I think guitar builders would rank right up there with a war crime." Loved your bravery, tenacity, and humor!
As a person who has played in a string orchestra, I have some ideas that might help to make the bow idea work. Primarily, I thought of how it might be better to use a cello bow because you need more width of bowstrings to get more grip on the instrument strings and a different way of holding the bow if you’re going to hold the instrument upright like a cello or string bass. It also could help to use cello or bass rosin seeing as I’m pretty sure those are more sticky and should help to play the thicker strings easier. Sorry for the run-on sentences and possible nonsensicality of what I said but I hope this can help.
@@rogthepirate4593 Maybe this automaton is inspired by a hurdy-gurdy. As far as I remember it consisted of the real violins that are pressed against the bow from the inner of the circle.
A mechanism (foot pedal?) to select a neck and with an option to automatically lock it might be an idea. Having the pickups convexed and fixed in one position instead of all the way round might be better too
Related to the pickup, this was an idea talked about. But then you couldn’t do any of the cool spin stuff. It would be way to practical engineering and I am not into that☺️
@@Mattiaskrantz there are stepper driver called "close loop" with servo brake that stops spinning when not powered, you can also use a "hall effect" sensor to sense the position of the guitar like the home ad an axel of a 3d printer, than setup callable macros that make the guitar spin or stop in specific positions. beautyfull work aniway
@@Mattiaskrantz There's a pickup called 'alumitone' by 'lace music' that uses a use a single coil and a transformer, instead of the many coils of thin wire in normal pickups. Might be simpler to construct?
@@Mattiaskrantz I left a comment somewhere suggesting an idea, considering you keep it free-spinning, to make it possible with a switch of a button (or a foot controller) to change the open chord tuning on the go between major, minor and diminished. That could actually make this guitar musically usable in recording, if feasible.
What you did at 11:50 actually sounded pretty cool. I could see something like this becoming an instrument in the future, not replacing the guitar/bass, but a new one
seriously? think about it for more than 30 seconds without smoking weed before hand, because I can't see any realistic future for this silly stage prop.
I'm not a musician but I can say that this is how innovation is made. Nothing ever starts out perfect but the possibilities of new techniques, new philosophies and new streams of creativity can grow exponentially from just playing around.
weird/innovative stuff can be built all the time, and surely is, assuming talented people has the time to explore the possibilities. Thing is almost none of it will go into mass production. Our profit driven societies don't particularly stimulate creativity and innovation. Internet does help though
I bet Rob Scallon could make some cool noises on that, he's probably the best guitar player I've seen, and he seems to learn new instruments in minutes. I'm so happy you tried the bow and slide
As much as I enjoy the video length, I also feel that you should get your time and money's worth for how long it took you to make this. The same way the piano videos paid for itself.
I love this video for 2 main reasons. 1 - I love the engineering design process that you went through to build the guitar. I am a middle school science teacher and have not found a great video that show this process on a real world level -- you do this very well. 2 - The final sound - not only did you manage to combine the 3 guitar components, but when you play 1 of the parts; the other 2 rotations pick up the vibrations to form a sweet harmony sound like a sitar. Thanks for the video.
You better patent that ASAP. That's a multimillion dollar invention. When you think you've perfected it (and it looks quality), give one to a well-known guitar player as a gift. Well done.
@@perseypoppins by design it's a completely different guitar, and it's totally fine to take certain design cues from other inventions as long as you aren't completely copying them, as he said their design was floppy and didn't work well, he fixed all the problems they faced and made an actual finished product that could definitely be argued as different, for one it has almost double the strings their design had, and it has an electric motor to rotate the neck with a foot pedal control.
1- patents take several bureaucratic years to be put in place, so his idea would be protected in 2030. 2- this isn't proven to work reliably. It's no more than a unexplored toy at the moment, so there's no reason why companies would want to invest in manufacturing infrastructure and start producing it. They're already making money. They might be interested in the idea, but they would have to invest time and resources experimenting with it, before they could ever start producing something for real. 3- the necessity for patents is quite debatable. Investors and engineers are often more likely to reach out to the inventor and try to collaborate with him, than to try pitch an idea they don't even fully understand to someone else who's never even seen it before and start from complete scratch. There's a reason why many inventors earn royalties: because companies are interested in buying ideas from the person who actually knows all the details of how they work. Patents are usually more useful for a company to protect itself against competition. In other words, they're one of the many ways the government allows anti-competitiveness to exist.
I can see it working better as a harp set up where instead of pedals, you have switches or a program to adjust the tuning of the entire guitar. Because it's still a string instrument, you wont get the full range of sound unless you use the frets, but i feel the tonality switches might be a better approach for the auto rotation with a bow.
This is the wildest musical thing I think I've ever seen. I think Paul McCartney needs to see this! I can also see this being a thing in metal music. Great job!
Glad to see this suggestion. You could really get crazy and make some cool music too. Think of adding a program, cpu, and positional sensors. It could run the rotation and braking for a song you came up with yourself. Or from your favorite bands. It could spin and brake on the next chord position automatically. You just need to finger the chord or use the slider. It could also cut pickups that are not in use to clean up the sound before spinning changes, or during them. You could also control the rotation, speed, brake, etcetera, with a peddle think rotary tool like a shop Dremel tool with a pedal for control. I think that you can get this dialed in over time. Better pickups and electronics, plus engineering revisions to the neck and body. If you use two metal rings that divide the strings from the electrics. The connections needed could be made to the rings on each of their respected halves. Once the pieces are mated together, the rings spin on top of each other completing the circuit. Without ever posing a risk of tangling. You could also cut output to certain degrees of the circle connections to improve sound when not needed. In theory you could tune different sections to how they suit the song. Rotating to whichever tuning you program for the song. So much potential. You have provided a working proof of concept. Hopefully you develop it more. It is gimmicky. But it is also cool and fun. Great project. I wonder if in order to make it more practical. You should think about creating a triangle that spins as the neck/ fretboard you choose. Giving you three flat changeable surfaces that you can play easier. Giving you a guitar, a bass, and whatever else you choose. Like a Key-tar (I’m joking.) Nice problem solving, fabrication and design. Thanks for sharing. Best of luck.
Exactly my first thought! Super fast spin and stops with maybe 3 or 4 foot pedals for each atop. Then it made me think the bass is pointless and just have 6 string 12 string and nylon string to choose from? Then though, maybe round is not needed and can go with a 3 sided rotating neck.
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I have gone through 1000 comments and I will answer some of the ones that is recurring a ton.
Q: Why did you not make the guitar be able to switch between guitar, bass and fretless with the motor?
A: That was the original intend of the motor, we had encoder and code all set up. However, I had to get this video out this year because I had already delayed it several months for the sponsor. I also spent 1 week burning up motor drivers and potentiometers because the first stepper I got was overpowered for the drivers. I’m also bd at electronics.
But one truly cool thing with positioning and stuff Is that you could have presets of neck movements. Like rhythmic spinning back and forth in patterns that fits the song?
Q: You should have used a slip ring for the pickups, it allows cables to spin.
A: This was the first thing that was tried, but I cut it from the vid. A slipring would work fine, it would just be slightly more complicated to integrate into the design VS bluetooth. However a slipring also introduces noise when spinning. I couldn’t hear any real life improvement vs the wireless system so I just went with the easiest for now.
Q: The guitar pickup should be mounted on the guitar in a curvature so only the front facing strings makes sound.
A: This was the first approach but some downsides didn’t make this solution good when going into the details.
curved pickups to this degree does not exist currently so you would have to invent a new method of making pickups. This would add 3-4 weeks to project minimum.
The height of the pickups is extremely important. If you look at your electric guitar you can see that each pickup is adjusted to the 1/10 of a millimeter for that particular string. If the pickups doesn’t move with the string. The loudness would be impossible to balance.
Using single pickups, the string could land inbetween the pickups. Even if ratcheting design was used. The string spacing is not the same on bass section as guitar section.
I personally was more into the idea of spin chords and stuff and it wouldn’t work with this idea.
Q: You should have done xxx it would be way more practical.
A: This guitar is not made to be sold or practical. It’s entertainment engineering and I do it just because ‘it would be cool if’.
Q: I want to buy it, how much?
A: The cost would be ridiculous to buy this particular one. I think in total we put in 800 hours into this? But if you are simply interested in how much it would cost to build another version. I can try to break it down.
Headless tuners/bridges = 700-1200 USD in total depending on brand.
Custom made pickups = 450USD
Strings: 150 USD for a set ( high price for the giga thick strings)
Wireless system = 150 USD or something
Besides this, we mostly used PLA and wood. You could of course find workarounds to keep prices lower. But if you count labour cost of workarounds it would end up even more expensive likely.
so this is what it feels to be first
Tryed putting a bass string next to a normal string so you can have a 12 string guitar effect but with a bass sound instead?
No joke nice prototype I think people would buy that it’s a novelty but it looks fun. In my opinion, it will be sick as heck if there was like a button on the guitar, you could press that spins the neck to the exact position you want it. Really neat. Good job it’s hilarious. And I’m not kidding. I think people would buy that it’s funny and looks like it’s fun just as a joke even.
You better put a patent on that lol no joke you should that’s impressive. You can make millions of dollars just selling that thing as a joke you gotta be kidding me. Lock it down now it doesn’t cost a lot of money.
I am not especially musical but I find your videos fascinating. It's the engineering aspect that interests me but even I can see a LOT of potential with this invention in the right musical hands. And that's what this is: a musical invention--a NEW instrument. Put this out there. Someone is going to show interest. I can foresee a bit more work on figuring out how best to control the spinning but that's relatively easy with modern hardware and programming. The hard part is done and it works! Don't be surprised if you are contacted by investors who want to take your prototype and bring it to market. Choose wisely and don't give up your ownership. You are an inventor. Take inspiration from other inventors who came before you, learn their stories and don't get stuck in a bad deal that sounds like a great deal at the time. You might even reach out to some of them. James Dyson comes to mind. He had to fight to keep his patents but he managed it. You will too. Don't just take the first deal you're offered because it is first. It likely won't be the best for you.
Will you complete the guitar before you hand it to a musician? Those preset positions would be the most worthwhile feature it's missing
You just invented a new string instrument. Literally. This is legitimately a new instrument. Imagine what kind of music can be played on it in ten years? Fifty? This is a masterable instrument. Give people the chance to learn this thing and it will be AMAZING.
I imagine people would do some sick basslines on it.
You can even improve with new versions. There is much potential with this!
Since this is inspired by someone else's idea, this is innovation, not invention. But I do agree that this could be awesome for future musicians for the versatility of sound ✨
Eh, prolly not. Who else is going to make this?
@johndoe probably the same thing said about literally every instrument
Honestly, I wasn't expecting THAT when you said "lets try shredding on this thing"
Literally shredded... cheese. 🤣
I laughed so hard
If the spinning was in a clockwise direction it would not catch your fingers on the fret board so easily. Did anybody else notice this?
@@MrDegsy69 From the point of view of the player, I think it already is clockwise. But yeah was also thinking that. Of course your thumb is going to be there, but still. And it'd also make sense to me, since it'd be a downstroke, which I think of as "the normal" way to strike chords. =)
same
Hey, engineer here. Instead of making it spin use a pedal board to trigger preset locations so you can quickly switch back and forth to different ranges
This!
Yes, Genius! Add a geared rotation so that it stays when you put it on pedalled preset
Trust him, he's an engineer...
yo pin this shit
Exactly
This is the first of your videos that I have stumbled across and Ive got to admit, you are one sick mofo. The world needs more people like you. You have what I have always found missing in myself, namely that spark of creative genius. At 73 years old with tendonitis in my arms and arthritis in my hands, i will never add to what your instrument will become, but I will watch the web with great interest as to how and in which direction it will launch. My sincerest thanks for sharing your work with us. I wish you every success.
You gotta get Rob Scallon to play this thing
I was just about to comment the exact same thing lmao
omg yes! Rob Scallion would be super interesting.
So would Sammy G
or maybe try Ola Englund. He'd avoid the airport problem since he's also in Sweden
@@J.C... damn bro, people go through shit just like you do, give them the same grace you wish people gave you. if you can't manage that, maybe just don't watch the content you don't like?
@@J.C... Him showing interesting instruments is much more enjoyable than banjo slayer.
This honestly feels like it could be an amazing instrument with the right person dedicated to learning it.
Too bad Prince isn't still alive. He would figure out how to play it in about 12 seconds, and be a master of it in another 20.
zip it up when you're done LOL
@@j0mbie
@@j0mbieprince was overrated asf. Yall over hype that weirdo 🤣🤣🤣 dude wasn’t even that good of a singer
get one of these to Weird Al Yankovic. he'll figure it out in no time, then learn how to play it 20% faster.
@@KraveSanity You eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?
My jaw is on the floor. This is the sickest thing EVER!!
123 likes and 1 reply? lemme fix that
Hell Yeah...Its not just guitar!!! It's bass guitar, contrabass, cello, violin and guitar in one instrument!!! And he could use loop pedal to play them all at the same time!!! Just Genius!!! 👏👏👏
I wanna see a steady sweep pick
It's a joke 😁
Give it to the aliens in the Jazz bar in the next StarWars movie!
Airport security :- " we found a machine gun "
Make sure you get your patent for this and mass produce it. You have essentially created a new instrument. Great work!
Exactly what I was thinking, this is groundbreaking atm
Public disclosure and publishing of an invention before filing will typically exclude it from being patented. FWIW.
Why is that? Just curious. @@christophertyrrell4018
It's already public .
Ok let's name those thing, Ruitar
It's like someone badly described a hurdy gurdy as something like "an instrument with a bit that rotates and a bunch of strings" and you were like "sure I can make that!".
I love how it sounded with the bow
This also feels more dangerous than than a hurdy gurdy with the exposed spinning strings.
@@keirasullivan7953 I'd definitely have the motor spinning the other way, that way it's not anywhere nearly as likely to catch a finger because the default direction of motion would pull the finger away from the string rather than push it into the string.
You can, left foot is direction change button. You can see it changes direction a lot in the vid!
You’re right, I was thinking you could get one of those electronic ebows that make it sound like you’ve got a constant drone on the strings. And then was trying to remember what sound that would be similar to. And it would be like he had invented the hurdy-gurdy. 😂
Wait. Are there electric hurdy gurdies?
I'm gonna tell my kids and grandchildren in the future that I was lucky enough to witness one of the coolest guitar concepts I've ever seen. The amount of effort, patience and trials you guys spent on this is so unbelievable. Hats off.
Guys we're in the Golden Era of this guitar!... before they require a big red ugly killswitch and a 30 minute safety training video on pinch points - amazing engineering
Duuuude when I saw this comment I was so confused because the 2 of us have the exact same profile pic, and the comment would also kinda be something I would I would write too *LMFAOOOO*
@@Ok-_-719 and I am some random loser too 😂😂😭
@@wreckedsun 😆😭
@@Ok-_-719 i’m like michael cera but worse 😭
15:23 Congrats, you created the stringed harmonica. Side note, I've seen something similar that created what a kaleidoscope looks like looking inside it.
Dude, this is so inspirational, I've seen you go from awkwardly mutilating pianos to making new, completely wild instruments. I can totally see people figuring out awesome ways to play this! You're one of my favorite creators, for sure! I also appreciate the mix of laser cutting and 3d printing, and the short but dark Twin Towers joke. Everything in this video was on point!
Its so dumb
What time was the Twin Towers joke?
@@rommelriot 6:15
The Gatling gun of guitars. Your perseverance and ability to work through problems is so inspiring.
@@AugustusSericusLutrathe Gatling Guitar! I came here to say the same thing!
Sounds more like a guitar gatling
If this ever made production, the first unit should be named "Ole Painless".
Most underated comment brah ⚡💯🤘. I remember when Leon was firing gatling gun at Nemesis or the giant croc.... #ResidentEvil
I used to work on miniguns and that was the first thing I thought of!
I love how Matthias shows his thought process, all the difficulties, all the help he got, everything that goes into engineering. And then everything is nicely condensed into a short video with no unnecessary filling and some well placed humor. Never thought that my favorite engineering channel would be a guy making absurd instruments!
Thank you!🥹 I tried my best on this one happy you liked it!!
I enjoy as well the whole (summarized) thinking process. That's the engineer in Mattias!
A mind of a true engineer
This man just made an inventory and all the people that are part of the building of it specially mattias are so cool, the new instrument is even more wow-ers
+ the process and the actual progress really fascinating
You're an actual engineer for this one, props to you man
this is absolutely revolutionary
pun intended?
@@SamanthaSamieiPRECISELY
12:22 "this is probably dangerous" is literally my favorite phrase to come out of any of your guitar or piano videos, literally the definition of this channel to me 😂
" if I just put some electricety on these hammer, that could be fun...." ...
What can be cooler than a guiitar that looks like a Minigun and are so dangerus it could kill you?
You need to watch styropyro then
Nice, just like the machining industry, mistakes will lose fingers. Strict music teachers will love it.
What song does he play there?
I haven't been this impressed in quite a while. Love that you saw a crazy idea and thought of making it a reality and actually worked through worked through it! Just amazing man 🙌🏼
I'm so proud of you for making it actually playable after all of those community posts describing the issues! Great job finishing it out in the end, and PLEASE reach out directly to Davie and Rob Scallon. Those madmen are likely to be very interested in attempting this!
I would watch the fk out of either of those guys trying to play this thing
The gadget is good but why u put parmesan on it?
Or Samurai Guitar
I think this has great potential
It's the new violin, Gatlin z Manuel tar..
Ah, GZM tar.
Bro your editing went to a whole new level. Such good quality video. Your previous videos were good too, but it’s so much better now!
✨broken and cylindrical✨
Thank you!! I spent a little extra days editing this because I really believed in the project!
@@Mattiaskrantz You do believe in weird projects. Then again, all of your projects are weird. In a good way.
as a product designer for the past 25+ years....this is sooooo sick! nicely executed. I can see more iterations in the future! Love the innovation. Love your failures and how you made improvements.
I love that you let your creativity guide you and you made it no matter what the obstacles were you stuck to it. You did amazing inventions and fails and success in the end. I am sure just understanding the instrument in any way to improve it would be the next step… But even if that’s it, you make a little bit of noise with something at the end and you’re fine with that. I don’t feel so bad after losing all the money I’ve lost on all the things I’ve tried to do, lol thanks for the inspiration to stay creative and not feel deal about failing in your life on your creative endeavors because it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved it at all
Dude 😂 I was dying. As an Engineer and a guitar player of 20yrs I approve of this debauchery. Keep up the good work 👍
I'm not finished with the vid yet but I'm hollering about open tunings, that's the move!
As a drummer i am in total admiration. Fantastic how they solved so many hard to solve technical issues.
Well done all involved.
grow up
A guitar neck has a very slight bow to it to allow the string to vibrate. Being round you could work that slight bow or slightly concave the middle of the finger board. It would probably only need to slightly taper in 1/64 in the middle of the neck all around. This would be fun to work on. Great job.
Yeah this is probably your best video so far, because this went beyond a novelty just for the memes, you've created something genuinely playable (with a lot of practice, of course). This is actually so awesome.
I think the water piano was even crazier. That one really blew my mind, this ....well, still miles above my lazy old head, but not as satisfying as the water grand piano, haha!
I wish i had an ounce of this boy's mental capacities. Or even a gram would do.
@@lowandodor1150 The water and electric piano is crazier in a sense, but it has no real use beyond novelty, it's hardly hold a tune.
This guitar on the other hand did actually hold up, playable, and has reasonable sound output which has a real potential for use in actual musical session, which is why i agree this is so far his best creation.
@@dalfifran7572 Well if your focus is on real use, then sure.
11:50 to 11:55 feels like the very beginning of what music played on a revolving guitar would sound like way into the future. Like, a flawless transition from guitar to bass and back. This could be in a sci-fi movie!
Haha, I was just thinking that! been watching the expanse lately and I could totally see a belter playing something like this, lol
@@Urmomshouse1993 oh heck yes!!
Right like a duet of both layers next to some drum kit being played. A seedy space western ost for a dive bar in some poor district of a mega building.
@@Divergent-ym3py Damn. Now I'm gonna hafta go write that story lol
Is that a song?
Keep going. You are on the way. Don't give up. It looks like you have something extraordinary. Looking forward to you getting it working.
I'm a CAD Design Engineer, so I found the "mirror" moment especially funny. I hope you kept the original models for a left-handed version.
This guitar deserves its own class of instrument. Imagine what such an instrument could do in the right hands. It would look as amazing as it sounds.
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I propose my champion: bring that guitar to Steve Vai!
Like the Theremin. Way before it's time. But Led Zeppelin used it.
@@tadeoguerra3320Next best choice since Eddie VanHalen is not available.
I love how here "it completely and utterly failed" is a part of the process.
I feel so motivated after watching your videos
That is just another part of the design process
"So i cut it into 6 parts, and now, it's broken."
"It completely and utterly failed" is always part of the process of any invention. Developers will know.
I applaud you on your relentless pursuit for development of an idea. Keep up the great works.
Dude! This might actually have been the first REAL invention in string instruments in over... maybe 2 or 5 decades at least! PLEASE get this out to Davie and Rob. They will have sooooo much fun with this, and I hope to see it in casual music videos in like 10 years from now, being played as if things have always been this way
This is quite similar to some models of hurdy gurdy
Davie won’t budge, because of his arrogant obsession with bass.
No. This is ritarded
a couple years ago some scientist made a spiderweb shaped harp like instrument while they were studying how spiders sense things on their web, it doesn't sound great but it is new
@@TheDan14 That actually sound kind of cool, I love spiders, but, if I play with girl’s g string and find a new way to make it make a sound with midi or something how great is that? If I take a shit and when I flush the toilet have the toilet mechanically make a jingle, is that a brilliant new thing? No, because it would sound like shit. I know those weren’t that funnyof examples but you get my point. If it sounds like shit, what is the point really? It’s a rhetorical question, just my .02
Please don't stop practicing on this. I just know that once the instrument is mastered, it will be awesome. ❤
Imagine the dooo on this
Suggestion:
I hear a high noise floor being picked up when you are playing. Having individual pickups means you can control how you wire them. You could make pairs with one of them phase swapped, it would work like a humbucker and cancel the background noise.
I will assume you just wired them all in paralell and maybe it made the impedance way lower than what should be expected for a guitar transmitter too. After all this work, should at least be worth a try, wiring pickup pairs in series and opposed phase as I said, and then in paralell with the next pair, then in series with the next set and etc.
If you can get your hands on a multimeter and measure the coil resistance, it might be worth arrange your sets to hit the 8-14K ohms in total when its all connected.
I love your creativity and admire your discipline in building such challenge concepts in real life.
Please keep it up o/
You’re right. I just wired then in parallel! I did get a big book about guitar electronics. But I never read it. But it gets worse. The pickups are not even soldered, I just twisted them together and used wago clips to make the connections😂 The good news with this is that from here on, it can only get better. Thanks for the advice!🙏🙏
@@Mattiaskrantzwell the good news is there's a lot more than can be done to make this playable :)
@@Mattiaskrantzalso get a nose gate pedal once you do the rewire, it’ll clean up the rest of the nasty noise.
You should collab lol
@@Mattiaskrantzthat just means you can improve it with less effort!
This is one of the coolest RUclips videos I've seen in YEARS!
Some design addition ideas:
1. Add a rigid half cylinder shaped support from the body asking the neck to the end to keep from touching strings you're not actively playing as well as to brace the neck. It would also allow for a more stylish end that may or may not rotate.
2. Use position sensors to only activate the pickups on strings you're playing to reduce noise from ones you're handling with the web of your hand.
3. Program rotational stops using a stepper motor to rotate to specific locations to play bass or guitar and activate using the pedal position. This way you can quickly and accurately jump to where you want it to go in addition to free or motorized spinning.
do a "crankshaft" sensors to only send the sound of the upfront strings to the Bluetooth
Maybe build a rig for the pickups that's on the outside of the neck instead of on it?
So the pickups stay stationary while the strings move underneath it
@@yannickdewit7089this is clearly the solution
@@yannickdewit7089 Not sure how bad the effect would be but that would cause a doppler shift as the string moves away from one pickup and towards another.
Stepper motor is the first thing that comes to mind.
11:49 love that seamless transition so much!! It really shows the beauty of putting guitar and bass together. Wonderful job!
You don't say it! I can't stop rewatching this part.
I can't believe how much you evolved as a youtuber since your first viral. REALLY great job, not only on your projects, but as a content creator itself, awesome work dude.
I never ever thought I would see someone playing music on a MACHINE GUN
This is one of the most unique guitar-related things that I have ever seen. You deserve some type of award for the creation of this thing. I hope you can make some sort of deal with a company to produce these instruments and make them available to the entire world!
"This thing is going to be stiffer than other materials that is less stiff." What a poet
trully the quote of all time
9:22 "This material is going to be stiffer than other materials, that are less stiff" 🔥
Inverse prostate surgery?
That’s like the same as the quote “u can tell it’s an aspen tree by the way it is” lol
English is a second language there and the he does quite well but there’s bound to be double negatives in a second language my German atrocious.
This is why we come here: to get valuable insights just like this! Haha! 🤣 But seriously, cool build! Even though I have big hands (to go along with being 1.94M tall (6'4")), it would be a real bugger to get used to such a thick neck -- and my hand positions can be bad enough as it is on a normal neck!
@@SteveWiddicombe-bv1upThis one was not a mistake, definitely a dick joke
"It's time for the moment that everyone skips to" had me rolling more than that fret board, lmao. Well played.
Recommendations: Stepper motor, pedal or button to have a few key controls.
1. move to specific rotation, so your hands can jump back to a specific feature.
2. Try harmonics while its spinning. I imagine a slight offset on the timing for a soft finger rest and pick impact,
3. spinnning stably, pick locked in place hits every string as it passes. use the slide to set the not (use a rounded slide, your not one a flat guitar :D ) and also have a cushion or something to mute the string after it passes. using the slide to change the primary note, and then with the second hand, align the finger to various harmonics points.
Sounding crazy, but this looks pretty awesome, and like its the birth of a new guitar, with just a few kinks to work out, and figure out a real calling. And just flat out, the bottom of this is looking incredible.
Yours is an awesome comment. Great ideas.
Not only does Mattias Krantz make guitar strings of horse hair, put helium in a guitar, make a gas electric guitar, make a guitar string out of spider webs, he also make a spinning base guitar. This really indicates that this guy is a legend and a master of creating guitars as well as guitar strings.
MASTER ENGINEER
I hope the European Guitar Builders and the Association of Stringed Instruments Artisans would recognized his works
this doesnt indicate anything other than he's a guy who likes to try "things"
@@hazardeur Took him three iterations of this to reinvent the truss rod, a central component of most guitars for about a century, so you might be right. 😅
in my mind this has rob scallon written all over it, id love to see what he'd come up with
and with more on somewhat technical and fun insights with it, rob scallon is definitely the way
I can see endless potential for this instrument!
imagine showing up to an airport and explaining that this contraption that looks like a minigun is actually an electric guitar
The amount of effort that went into this is crazy. I hope Davie or any of the other guitar/bass RUclipsrs see this and collaborate with you on it!!
I think this is the closest to "an actual thing" you've ever built, and I honestly could see this being an actually performable instrument.
I mean, it got structure, it got function, hegg it even looks hella cool!
is this guy an engineer or something?
@@Kruzhh He's a low tier mad scientist at this point.
I feel the need for a Rob scallion collaboration.
his pianos can be played, they're just a bit impractical.
Agreed. Now just make it gas powered like the other one!
That's actually pretty genius dude I love a chance to learn how to play it father was a piano tuner I was lost in what to do one day he brought me an electric guitar home. Can't live with it can't live without it
Suggestion: You should be able to program the motor to move a set distance and then stop. This way you can have a button (or buttons) on the ground that changes it over to the next set of strings. If you want it to still be able to cycle freely you'd need to program it to know where each set of strings are.
lol i should have read the comments i added turn it into like a auto piano player with picks instead of paper holes lol
I had the exact same idea. Put in a Servo and an encoder. Than make small buttons for 1 turn. 1/2 turn, 1/4 turn or what ever seems practical. I think Arduino should be capable. With a powerbank still remote.
@@StinkyHeXoR I was looking for this comment, there is a way to make this work like you say with a stepper motor, I imagine you'd have to push the specific buttons with you foot or maybe an eye piece and look at the button like people with a disability do 😀 Where there is a crazy will there is a way
Dang it, the more comments I read the more I am thinking that my ideas were already thought of, oh well, what a drag.
This is unironically one of your best ideas yet. Like if someone properly skilled at guitar would sit down and learn this some banger ass tunes could be made
You would need someone which has 3 important skills 1 plays guitar 2 plays bass 3 has advanced spatial awareness
I really look up to folks who brush off setbacks like they're nothing and just keep pushing forward, never giving up!
Right, let's waste more and more time on something so obviously ridiculous. I'm embarrassed I watched half of this video .
@@sheckygagstein8966 ok but this is cool
@@sheckygagstein8966glad you decided to waste even more writing this comment
the problem at 3:04 is an easy fix, use a 'rotary' connection (like the horn in your cars' steering wheel); that way the wires are still, and you have a commutator which moves, while maintaining connection, and not stressing out the wires 🙂
Amen
I’m a violinist and a guitarist….. that segment of violin bowing hurt my heart in the best way possible
He definitely shredded
You're too humble for what you've just done. I'm sure you'll see your invention go far as people put technique and improve on it. I can see myself writing insanely original riffs on this thing. Keep rocking. 🤘
This is incredible. Your commitment to making this one work is truly admirable.
If I see and hear some prodigy making good music on it I will be amazed by the craftsmanship and musicianship.
This is like a StarWars Jazz Bar moment.
I am from Brazil. I thought your idea was amazing. I want to see a rock group play this instrument. you are the man.
This is the kind of video that truly feels like the beginning of something. I'm convinced that any instrument deemed useless is simply an instrument that hasn't found its musician. But this, it's an actually interesting evolution on the concept of guitar. Imagine if the motor could store positions and rotate to presets, or using other types of resonance instead of only pickups.
At the very least, this is the type of instrument someone like Hans Zimmer could use to create his landmark exotic sounds. It's an incredible project, and one of the things that make humanity worth saving: all the knowledge accrued along the ages, multiple modern inventions, all serving the construction of a wild project. Like a literal dream being built. Love ya Mattias.
That guitar is guaranteed to give you blisters on both hands at once.
Besides that small inconvenience, it's incredible. Well done!
We making out it out of the 2d plane with this one!!🔥🔥🔥
Good, someone else saw that lol
1:22 *mark rober theme song starts playing* me: HELL YEA
my jaw is on the FLOOR man. i remember when you first posted a picture about a 360 guitar prototype and i was like "😳 he's insane", and i mean that affectionately lol because i knew right then and there that you *would* make it happen. and let me tell you, you didn't disappoint. this guitar is absolutely bonkers in the best way possible. the whole video had me in disbelief. also your editing has gone from like a hundred to a thousand. this was so entertaining to watch! i especially like how you seem more comfortable in front of the camera, if that makes sense. it really feels like we're there with you in your workshop seeing the magic happen. so yeah my dude, i still can't believe you made this. can't wait to see what journey you take your new creation on!
I'm in an awe on both the incredible built, but also the quality and style of the video production. You're leveling up on both fields and it's awesome to witness you in the process. Keep it up and have fun in the process :D
It feels like this is a legit new instrument. The sound you made with the bow feels like something that if you continued in "cello pose", with some sort of control on the spin (not clicking, but maybe a gentle friction to stop on each string), it could create a new kind of playing!
spanish zampgnia i think is the name of the rotative violin. check it out
@@ShadowlordDiojust googled it and could only see results showing these pan-pipe looking things, is the name defo right?!?
@@R__A hurdy gurdy or zampogna is the violin arc converted in a continuos rotating arc and the strings stay static. so rotating the strings and usign a normal arc or a guitar pic is what this youtuber did. Now, i think that using statick picks as keyboard like a clavier and rotating the strings would be a cont would be epic too ruclips.net/video/TfKSa0t8-N0/видео.html
This is actually pretty cool. It needs longitudinal fret markers to identify which strings are which, that way someone could probably learn to hit the right strings consistently with some practice.
instead of a regular motor, use a stepper motor and g-code to program specific spin distances on a button pedal based on songs you want to play. Every time you press the button, it turns a perfect number of strings around based on the code. Please make another video about this thing, it’s awesome.
I was thinking the same thing... stepper motor and or a servo!
A stepper motor is exactly what this needs. You don't want to go by feel, you want to know exactly where everything is going to be after you step on the pedal.
No need for a stepper. A good magnetic encoder and some code is all you need :)
Oh man, this is incredible. You literally just created a new musical instrument with so much new potential. I can see this actually becoming a thing and people buying these guitars in the future. You should patent or license it or sth.
Yeah, he should DEFINITELY patent the living *shit* out of everything about this masterpiece. It's completely insane, and wonderful, that's why I know someone will steal the idea unless it's protected.
Yes, someone else might want to build an impractical instrument that sounds awful.
@PhpGtr right now, I'm on your side, this thing seems silly. Buuut, I'll bet there's plenty of people that said the same thing about the theramin. Never know. Someone might crack it.
@@PhpGtr Got some pretty unique sounds out of this, and it's only the first build with an unpracticed hand.
While i'm not expecting anything that exceeds the norm, i'm certain this could carve it's own little niche community.
@@PhpGtr "who would ever need this wheel thing, its impractical complicated and doesn't even work" ~ a caveman like you
9:20 "This thing is going to be stiffer than other materials that are less stiff" I'm dying lmao
I lost it at "FUCK LEGO, WE'RE USING HUGE ALUMINIUM PIPE!"
Further more it was "is less stiff", so it's even more chaotic
@@anthonyvadala4837 Same. Tho the funniest part for me was the "This is it! This is the moment that everyone skips to!"
10:51 He’s hilarious! 😭 he got me again at “it’s like all the problems went to get some milk” lol
I came here to spesifically comment this. but you did it first
This is the craziest looking guitar ever! And it works!
As a retired luthier who used to exhibit and sell my guitars all over the world, I can safely say that is damn cool! Well done!
Your profession sounds just as cool as this guitar! I bet your story would make a very interesting video. I've never met a professional guitar craftsman.
@@olliefoxx7165 I had a good career, had a lot of press, won many awards and did well, but it made me very sick. I developed allergy related asthma due to working with all of the tropical woods for so many years. That was a long time ago now though, you move on... Thank you!
I'd love to see some of your work. You must've had a really great time with such a cool career.
What brand were your guitars marketed under?
Sure you did.
you have invented a new way to play guitar and now I want one in my collection and I want to write music with it. props to you we need more musical mad scientists like you my friend
I can't imagine there being a dislike in this video. This is UNREAL! The hundreds of hours to make this thing and coming out in the end with an actual workable instrument is INSANE!!!
as a person with extension: This video has 1.5k dislikes, which I'd concider to be a win situation)
Ngl I disliked it for the BetterHelp sponsorship
Steve Vai knows how to manipulate this to create a beautiful song
I can't imagine it took this long to notice the strings were in reverse order. Saw it immediately and I can't even play.
@@subwayz_qt5 man, earnings from youtube videos might not be enough for living
The greatest invention ever. 🎸 🤓
Finally a guitar with all the octaves! This opens up a new world in music! Ok maybe I exaggerated, but it's really very beautiful!
your one-liners had me ROFL. " order it so you can smoke some second-hand plywood too." "This thing is going to be stiffer than other materials that is less stiff." "This thing is getting closer and closer to an airport ban" "I built the guitar body with a technique I think guitar builders would rank right up there with a war crime." Loved your bravery, tenacity, and humor!
All the problems went out to get some milk lol
That's a lot of work. I love your dedication.
Mate… I don’t play the guitar… but I am an engineer… and you sir…. are an absolute legend! What an amazing build
As a person who has played in a string orchestra, I have some ideas that might help to make the bow idea work. Primarily, I thought of how it might be better to use a cello bow because you need more width of bowstrings to get more grip on the instrument strings and a different way of holding the bow if you’re going to hold the instrument upright like a cello or string bass. It also could help to use cello or bass rosin seeing as I’m pretty sure those are more sticky and should help to play the thicker strings easier. Sorry for the run-on sentences and possible nonsensicality of what I said but I hope this can help.
In the Deutsches Museum in Munich you can watch legacy violin automata. They play violins mechanically using a bow of a circle shape.
@@amigalemming So essentially a hurdy gurdy.
@@rogthepirate4593 Maybe this automaton is inspired by a hurdy-gurdy. As far as I remember it consisted of the real violins that are pressed against the bow from the inner of the circle.
@@amigalemming There is also such a thing in the Speelklok Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands. (And lots of other fun stuff.)
A mechanism (foot pedal?) to select a neck and with an option to automatically lock it might be an idea.
Having the pickups convexed and fixed in one position instead of all the way round might be better too
That was the original idea with the motor. But sponsor deadline so I had to just connect it and start editing
Related to the pickup, this was an idea talked about. But then you couldn’t do any of the cool spin stuff. It would be way to practical engineering and I am not into that☺️
@@Mattiaskrantz there are stepper driver called "close loop" with servo brake that stops spinning when not powered, you can also use a "hall effect" sensor to sense the position of the guitar like the home ad an axel of a 3d printer, than setup callable macros that make the guitar spin or stop in specific positions.
beautyfull work aniway
@@Mattiaskrantz There's a pickup called 'alumitone' by 'lace music' that uses a use a single coil and a transformer, instead of the many coils of thin wire in normal pickups. Might be simpler to construct?
@@Mattiaskrantz I left a comment somewhere suggesting an idea, considering you keep it free-spinning, to make it possible with a switch of a button (or a foot controller) to change the open chord tuning on the go between major, minor and diminished. That could actually make this guitar musically usable in recording, if feasible.
Davie 504 will love this...oh wait...its a guitar too...then it will be a mixed feeling I guess 13:50
What you did at 11:50 actually sounded pretty cool. I could see something like this becoming an instrument in the future, not replacing the guitar/bass, but a new one
Exactly what I thought, play with it for a while
seriously? think about it for more than 30 seconds without smoking weed before hand, because I can't see any realistic future for this silly stage prop.
GUIBASS
@@mindgames11 you must be fun at parties
I'm not a musician but I can say that this is how innovation is made. Nothing ever starts out perfect but the possibilities of new techniques, new philosophies and new streams of creativity can grow exponentially from just playing around.
weird/innovative stuff can be built all the time, and surely is, assuming talented people has the time to explore the possibilities. Thing is almost none of it will go into mass production.
Our profit driven societies don't particularly stimulate creativity and innovation.
Internet does help though
@@mgg7756 The cost and complexity of mass producing something like this would be absurd.
Um, no. Building garbage nobody asked for, and is so ridiculous it’s laughable isn’t “innovation” dipstick 🤦♂️
It’s like a gatling guitar. This is wonderful.
Perfect description!
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Get Olivier Tshimanga to do justice here.
I bet Rob Scallon could make some cool noises on that, he's probably the best guitar player I've seen, and he seems to learn new instruments in minutes. I'm so happy you tried the bow and slide
Man, this guitar should make a tour through all guitar youtubers to see what all those creative minds will come up with!
No since i own a guitar and post whatever
Love the Gattling Guitar!
Rototar
SpinCaster
-“The power of nuts to squeeze it all together and make it extremely rigid.”
-😮 I’m in!
As much as I enjoy the video length, I also feel that you should get your time and money's worth for how long it took you to make this. The same way the piano videos paid for itself.
Thank you! But I didn’t have more I wanted to say in this video. I’d rather do a follow up or something if people wanna see more!
I'd be totally fine with a process style video format like Wintergatan for example @@Mattiaskrantz
@@Mattiaskrantz I agree with schmogel. I enjoy watching the more in depth process of you making these.
@@Schmogel92agreed
Hehe you guys don't know about the secret channel
I love this video for 2 main reasons. 1 - I love the engineering design process that you went through to build the guitar. I am a middle school science teacher and have not found a great video that show this process on a real world level -- you do this very well. 2 - The final sound - not only did you manage to combine the 3 guitar components, but when you play 1 of the parts; the other 2 rotations pick up the vibrations to form a sweet harmony sound like a sitar. Thanks for the video.
You better patent that ASAP. That's a multimillion dollar invention. When you think you've perfected it (and it looks quality), give one to a well-known guitar player as a gift. Well done.
100% this
Its already public. No shot
@@MinkFicklethis video is proof of design and concept though-
@@perseypoppins by design it's a completely different guitar, and it's totally fine to take certain design cues from other inventions as long as you aren't completely copying them, as he said their design was floppy and didn't work well, he fixed all the problems they faced and made an actual finished product that could definitely be argued as different, for one it has almost double the strings their design had, and it has an electric motor to rotate the neck with a foot pedal control.
1- patents take several bureaucratic years to be put in place, so his idea would be protected in 2030.
2- this isn't proven to work reliably. It's no more than a unexplored toy at the moment, so there's no reason why companies would want to invest in manufacturing infrastructure and start producing it. They're already making money. They might be interested in the idea, but they would have to invest time and resources experimenting with it, before they could ever start producing something for real.
3- the necessity for patents is quite debatable. Investors and engineers are often more likely to reach out to the inventor and try to collaborate with him, than to try pitch an idea they don't even fully understand to someone else who's never even seen it before and start from complete scratch. There's a reason why many inventors earn royalties: because companies are interested in buying ideas from the person who actually knows all the details of how they work.
Patents are usually more useful for a company to protect itself against competition. In other words, they're one of the many ways the government allows anti-competitiveness to exist.
I can see it working better as a harp set up where instead of pedals, you have switches or a program to adjust the tuning of the entire guitar. Because it's still a string instrument, you wont get the full range of sound unless you use the frets, but i feel the tonality switches might be a better approach for the auto rotation with a bow.
This is the wildest musical thing I think I've ever seen. I think Paul McCartney needs to see this! I can also see this being a thing in metal music. Great job!
Would be crazy if you added in presets to lock the motors in the three different positions, and then a free spin mode - that is absolutely badass
Glad to see this suggestion. You could really get crazy and make some cool music too. Think of adding a program, cpu, and positional sensors. It could run the rotation and braking for a song you came up with yourself. Or from your favorite bands. It could spin and brake on the next chord position automatically. You just need to finger the chord or use the slider. It could also cut pickups that are not in use to clean up the sound before spinning changes, or during them. You could also control the rotation, speed, brake, etcetera, with a peddle think rotary tool like a shop Dremel tool with a pedal for control.
I think that you can get this dialed in over time. Better pickups and electronics, plus engineering revisions to the neck and body. If you use two metal rings that divide the strings from the electrics. The connections needed could be made to the rings on each of their respected halves. Once the pieces are mated together, the rings spin on top of each other completing the circuit. Without ever posing a risk of tangling. You could also cut output to certain degrees of the circle connections to improve sound when not needed. In theory you could tune different sections to how they suit the song. Rotating to whichever tuning you program for the song.
So much potential. You have provided a working proof of concept. Hopefully you develop it more. It is gimmicky. But it is also cool and fun. Great project. I wonder if in order to make it more practical. You should think about creating a triangle that spins as the neck/ fretboard you choose. Giving you three flat changeable surfaces that you can play easier. Giving you a guitar, a bass, and whatever else you choose. Like a Key-tar (I’m joking.)
Nice problem solving, fabrication and design. Thanks for sharing. Best of luck.
Exactly my first thought! Super fast spin and stops with maybe 3 or 4 foot pedals for each atop. Then it made me think the bass is pointless and just have 6 string 12 string and nylon string to choose from? Then though, maybe round is not needed and can go with a 3 sided rotating neck.
This is absolutely amazing! you have genuinely made an interesting AND learnable guitar variant and we are all here for it
Okay, this is the most beautiful instrument I have ever seen before in my life.