The keyboard mechanical unit for electric and acoustic guitar playing
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I'm offering to the guitar world the unique keyboard mechanical unit for electric and acoustic guitar playing, which I invented and designed in 2004. Only now I and my business partner have filed the patent application on my invention and have decided to make it public to attract attention of manufacturers of musical instruments to possibility of production of guitar keyboard units and to help to thousands of guitar players all over the world to experience new sensations of guitar playing.        Idea of guitar keyboard unit was formed, when I began to study guitar playing, such not a simple, but great instrument. Professional guitar players know how much force, time and patience should be applied to appear on the scene with assurance and show high level of playing. Together with soul and heart, which musician put into instrument playing, he needs high and virtuous technique of playing. Technique of sound extraction by finger or mediator is not less, but may be more important than fingers' agility on fingerboard. Studying electric guitar I faced with some difficulties in sound extraction, in particular, woodiness of right hand, missing of string by mediator, "tremolo", fast performance of plunk arpeggio both by fingers and mediator etc. And technique of left hand needs less attention. I understood that it is impossible for me to achieve technique of famous guitar players, or it will take a lot of time and efforts.        Once, when I saw at the concert, how easily and virtuously plaid the piano player, my mind was occupied by idea to use keyboard mechanics for guitar sound extraction. I have decided to invent and design such system. I studied constructions of piano, grand piano, clavecin and I have understood that they were unsuitable for my idea, because systems of these instruments are very complicated and need lot of parts, so it is impossible to place them into a small box. For making small copies of these parts it is necessary to have high precision equipment and instruments, while I had only very simple equipment. So I have understood that it is necessary to design something else, which will be easier in production.        I tried different constructions to force a string of electric guitar to sound after pushing a key. Solution happened to be really simple and easy in production. And how many possibilities have opened for guitar playing! I play "tremolo", solo parts, plunk arpeggio and accord rhythmic passages freely an easily, because it is much easily to push wide keys, than to pluck strings by fingers or mediator.        Earlier, during electric guitar playing without keyboard unit, my left hand was faster than right one. In opposite, now left hand is in arrears of right one and needs in additional training. Besides, due to my original dempfer it is possible to play guitar, for example, as organ: keys are pushed - strings sound, keys a pulled - sound is sharply died down. Organ principle of sounding dives more possibilities for guitar. It is also possible to create original electric guitar parties: solo, accord rhythmic passages or plunk arpeggio, which even high-class guitar player could play hard without keyboard unit.   It is possible to study guitar playing with my keyboard unit much faster than usual acoustic or electric guitar. The unit could be installed on guitar easy and quickly, and could be easy and quickly dismantled, although it is not necessary to dismantle it, because keyboard unit, installed on guitar, absolutely does not prevent to play guitar by fingers of mediator.   I hope that both beginners and professional guitar players will appreciate my invention after guitar keyboard units will come into the market.  Besides, several design solutions used in my invention could be used for piano and grand piano. More info is on www.guitarkeyboardunit.com
Sincerely,Slava Lukyanov (inventor) March, 2008
Contacts: info@guitarkeyboardunit.com

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