Automatic Guitar tuning.

[Scott J.]

We will end up with them as standard on everything one day though, but for now, we need to make such horrible devices obsolete!

Ah Keloooe, you've gazing into a crystal ball! ... Gibson are now releasing their G-Force Automated Tuning System as standard on the majority of their range of electric guitars ... so far it's infected the most of the line of Les Pauls and SGs and word is that they'll eventually spread to their whole range of electrics



... the end result being that within a year or two the only way you'll be acquire a new Gibson WITHOUT an auto-tuner will be by special order ... or remove the thing yourself and have to put up with the inevitable screw-holes and indentations from where it was mounted.

Personally I'm inclined to quite a martinet on this type of issue ... if you can't tune the instrument yourself, I don't think it's so much a case of "you shouldn't be playing it" ... but more a case of "you don't deserve to be playing it!"