Voice Capo

[SoloBill]

Hi all,
This has just been brought to my attention -
www.voicecapo.com/index.php/default/
It takes up an awful lot of space on a twelve fret board and won't fit a wide fret board but it might be an interesting way to explore new sounds.

Anyone seen or tried one?

Bill

[Michael Messer]

I have not seen this machine, but I have seen similar devices that are supposed to make guitar playing easy and open up other ways of playing. None of them appeal to me, but I guess they can be fun.

Open tuning is the way I would recommend playing in the style of the guy demonstrating the Voice.

Shine On
Michael

[profscratchy]

His next invention, apparently, is a machine that puts a baseball cap on the right way round every time

[Deleted]

There's nothing new about this. i had a plastic ukulele in the 1950s that had one of these so kids could easily play chords.
It was even better because you only had to press one button to get an entire chord!
Funny how the wheel comes round again?
That cap device sounds useful though

[blackjack]

You are right Bluesbottle, my first guitar at around 10 years old was a plastic four string with a removable chord box like yours. It was a horrible thing, but it got me hooked on playing,so it was not all bad...The wheel certainly does comes round again full circle.A few years ago ,I was at a local salesroom and amongst the lots were two of the above plastic horrors,one of which had Elvis's face on it .I stopped laughing when they went under the hammer at £500 a piece,apparently sold to collectors of fifties/sixties stuff.Mine got swapped for a couple of Chuck Bery records,when I got my first real guitar . Oh for the benefit of hindsight, Cheers, Jack.

[Quarterquay]

Vaguely similar way of getting chords to an autoharp I suppose only you can get great sounds out of an autoharp.