Yanko guitar
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beaubrummels
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If not bound by acoustic or ergonomic concerns, that's like recipe for failure in music, unless it was intended as wall art that you never attempt to get sound out of.
Love the Michael Kelly ads injected into the page.
Love the Michael Kelly ads injected into the page.
This reads and looks like something someone came up with for a design class in college. So much to unpack but the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Humorless chuckle at the idea that making something "current" involves subordinating its form to abstract design concepts from 100 years ago. Maybe if it just looked like a guitar, but was actually a clock?
Chris Pile
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The website claims the body shape is not bound by ergonomic concerns - in other words, the designer didn't give a crap about it. So it's NOT ergonomic. Goes without saying it's also ugly.
NegativeEase
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Why? Im guessing because the designer needed it for a design for his school project for his degree. :biglaugh:
I hate the claim that it's not "bound to acoustic or ergonomic" design constraints -but still following almost every traditional approach for an electric guitar except the body shape.
There really isnt anything innovative here IMO
I hate the claim that it's not "bound to acoustic or ergonomic" design constraints -but still following almost every traditional approach for an electric guitar except the body shape.
There really isnt anything innovative here IMO
Why? Im guessing because the designer needed it for a design for his school project for his degree. :biglaugh:
I hate the claim that it's not "bound to acoustic or ergonomic" design constraints -but still following almost every traditional approach for an electric guitar except the body shape.
There really isnt anything innovative here IMO
Ah but it deconstructs and reimagines the two most iconic guitar forms! According to concepts! Designs of the 1950s, seen with fresh eyes through the advancements of the 1920s! Free for the first time from hidebound, socially constructed limitations such as "looking", "feeling", or "sounding" good. The first and bravest instrument design to function, as all true art does, in opposition to norms, in the liminal space between interrogation and conflict. Comfort is for the weak.
Sledge hammer first.
Chris Pile
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Anvil...
Chistopher
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Well it's clearly a popular guitar on this forum. There's not a single person in this thread to take a chance to pick on it.
eclecticsynergy
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I half expected the thread to be about fake Yashenkos.
Yep, to me those look to be pretty much the complete opposite of ergonomic.
Boxy, no cutaway for uppermost fret access (though the necks do join the body way high).
They even look uncomfortable, and the control placement could best be termed remote.
I agree it has the look of an undergrad design project from by a non-musician.
Still, they're unique - you'd never mistake either one for any other guitar.
Yep, to me those look to be pretty much the complete opposite of ergonomic.
Boxy, no cutaway for uppermost fret access (though the necks do join the body way high).
They even look uncomfortable, and the control placement could best be termed remote.
I agree it has the look of an undergrad design project from by a non-musician.
Still, they're unique - you'd never mistake either one for any other guitar.
I'd never mistake them for a guitar. Period!
This is the most ridiculous futile design attempt I've seen of a supposed guitar by someone who obviously knows nothing about guitars. It pains me to even look at it.
A basic principle of design is "form follows function". He really missed the boat on this one, and if it is indeed a student, I hope the teacher caught that and flunked him.
GuitarStv
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I'd give one a whirl. The body shape is a little odd, but certainly no less ergonomic than a telecaster or Bo Diddly guitar. The fact that they're kinda ugly doesn't help matters though.
