The Next Generation Guitar prototype
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www.nextgenguitar.com
I developed the original concept for The Next Generation Guitar in 2003. As a professional pianist, I shared a common pain with other keyboard players. Because of the arrangement of our instrument, usually the audience cannot see what we are playing and we are immobile; confined to one area. It is challenging to "rock out" in the same fashion as a guitar player. Consequently, keyboardists often do not enjoy many of the perks that the guitar player does.
Also, after learning the guitar and bass I realized that they have limitations of how you can create chords and melodies compared to a piano. On a guitar, you generally only have six strings to work with which means that not only are your chords limited to six notes at the most, but playing notes that are next to each or far aaprt from each other is almost impossible. This means that in most cases you cannot play beautiful "cluster chords" or play a bass note and a chord above it simultaneously like you can on a piano.
So my goal was to create an instrument that you can move around and "rock out" while playing, but also offered the freedom to play complex, lush, beautiful chords as on a piano. A second goal was to make the notes immediately recognizable by a keyboardist, so they could quickly learn to play the instrument coming from a keyboard background. We did this by powder coating certain strings black in the same design as the piano's notes so chords and scales can instantly be seen.
The last 10 years were spent brainstorming, designing, searching existing patents and prior art, and working with a seeming endless list of people who were very interested in partnering together to make my instrument a reality, but never persevered through all the obstacles.
By the end of 2012, I had saved enough money to hire a mechanical engineer from a top product development company to help me bring this vision to life. After 8 months, we finally came up a design that was both ergonomically pleasing and unique enough to apply for a provisional patent; which we did in August of 2013 on the instrument is now officially "patent pending".
I began contacting multiple music instrument manufactures about building The Next Generation Guitar. The all too common response is "the idea seems great, but we need a prototype first. We need to see it and hear it."
After getting several quotes, we have worked out a deal in which my engineer will complete the design and use his resources to build a complete prototype for $9,750.00. The additional funds requested are to cover this websites fee. At that point, I will subsequently make it my life's obsession to master the playing of The Next Generation Guitar.
I am seeking to raise this capital to have the prototype created so we can pitch it to the top musical instrument manufacturers in the world and offer a solution to common problems faced by today's performing musicians.
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I developed the original concept for The Next Generation Guitar in 2003. As a professional pianist, I shared a common pain with other keyboard players. Because of the arrangement of our instrument, usually the audience cannot see what we are playing and we are immobile; confined to one area. It is challenging to "rock out" in the same fashion as a guitar player. Consequently, keyboardists often do not enjoy many of the perks that the guitar player does.
Also, after learning the guitar and bass I realized that they have limitations of how you can create chords and melodies compared to a piano. On a guitar, you generally only have six strings to work with which means that not only are your chords limited to six notes at the most, but playing notes that are next to each or far aaprt from each other is almost impossible. This means that in most cases you cannot play beautiful "cluster chords" or play a bass note and a chord above it simultaneously like you can on a piano.
So my goal was to create an instrument that you can move around and "rock out" while playing, but also offered the freedom to play complex, lush, beautiful chords as on a piano. A second goal was to make the notes immediately recognizable by a keyboardist, so they could quickly learn to play the instrument coming from a keyboard background. We did this by powder coating certain strings black in the same design as the piano's notes so chords and scales can instantly be seen.
The last 10 years were spent brainstorming, designing, searching existing patents and prior art, and working with a seeming endless list of people who were very interested in partnering together to make my instrument a reality, but never persevered through all the obstacles.
By the end of 2012, I had saved enough money to hire a mechanical engineer from a top product development company to help me bring this vision to life. After 8 months, we finally came up a design that was both ergonomically pleasing and unique enough to apply for a provisional patent; which we did in August of 2013 on the instrument is now officially "patent pending".
I began contacting multiple music instrument manufactures about building The Next Generation Guitar. The all too common response is "the idea seems great, but we need a prototype first. We need to see it and hear it."
After getting several quotes, we have worked out a deal in which my engineer will complete the design and use his resources to build a complete prototype for $9,750.00. The additional funds requested are to cover this websites fee. At that point, I will subsequently make it my life's obsession to master the playing of The Next Generation Guitar.
I am seeking to raise this capital to have the prototype created so we can pitch it to the top musical instrument manufacturers in the world and offer a solution to common problems faced by today's performing musicians.
*Please share this with your friends*
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Jimmy Fingers
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Reading, PA