Post by honeyboy on Jun 17, 2010 14:30:46 GMT
Announced today at Summer NAMM, Fret-King Super-matic self-tuning guitar, is the first ever guitar to feature the truly outstanding and innovative Wilkinson ATD HT440 self-tuning hardtail guitar bridge.
The Wilkinson ATD self-tuning bridge, which has been under development by Trev and his team at 'Auto Tuning Developments' over many years, is a super low profile, real time electro-mechanical device utilising ultra hi-tech micro gearboxes, designed to retrofit unobtrusively in to a standard Strat vibrato bridge rout, (or similar), with a micro hex pickup, controls small enough not to notice, and an intuitive one touch button controlling all the functions and features of this truly incredible device.
Invisibly incorporating the microprocessor control circuitry, the ATD bridge allows the player, with just one touch of the function button to automatically tune the Super-Matic to standard E-tuning.
Press the function button again, strum, and let the ATD change the guitars tuning from standard E to open G, or change to DADGAD, then to open D - all in the space of just a few seconds, or recalibrate to five additional 'user created' tuning presets in just a few seconds more.
See it in action, together with inventor Trevor Wilkinson here
Just what your Newton Michael Messer 'Slide Classics' were meant for..
Similar (but better) to the custom auto tuning 'Transperformance' bridge Sonny Landreth has been using on one of his strats for a few years.
Looks a better bet than the Gibson Robot Guitar and the Gibson Dark Fire
Dare I retrofit one to my 1954 Fender 'Mary Kay' Strat? Errr, probably not....
The Wilkinson ATD self-tuning bridge, which has been under development by Trev and his team at 'Auto Tuning Developments' over many years, is a super low profile, real time electro-mechanical device utilising ultra hi-tech micro gearboxes, designed to retrofit unobtrusively in to a standard Strat vibrato bridge rout, (or similar), with a micro hex pickup, controls small enough not to notice, and an intuitive one touch button controlling all the functions and features of this truly incredible device.
Invisibly incorporating the microprocessor control circuitry, the ATD bridge allows the player, with just one touch of the function button to automatically tune the Super-Matic to standard E-tuning.
Press the function button again, strum, and let the ATD change the guitars tuning from standard E to open G, or change to DADGAD, then to open D - all in the space of just a few seconds, or recalibrate to five additional 'user created' tuning presets in just a few seconds more.
See it in action, together with inventor Trevor Wilkinson here
Just what your Newton Michael Messer 'Slide Classics' were meant for..
Similar (but better) to the custom auto tuning 'Transperformance' bridge Sonny Landreth has been using on one of his strats for a few years.
Looks a better bet than the Gibson Robot Guitar and the Gibson Dark Fire
Dare I retrofit one to my 1954 Fender 'Mary Kay' Strat? Errr, probably not....
