They ’re not as awkward to transport as a piano or a cello , but guitars are far from being the easiest instrument to travel with . And if air guitar never really satisfies your desire to take on while away from your instrument , thispen - sized single - string playable guitarmight be a better traveling companion .
Currently trying to kindle $ 35,000 on Kickstarter , the FretPen is to your guitar what the Game Boy was to your home gaming console . A compact portable alternative that can astonishingly be played just like a full - sized guitar .
The fretboard — made from existent maple wood — can notice multiple digit placements , while the circumscribed pick of notes you may act can be adjust using a four - direction controller on the bottom part of the tiny guitar . There does n’t appear to be any strumming required to play it — you just tap the frets — but the single guitar string is still a nice touch .
The genuine sounds produced by the FretPen do n’t come from the pen itself . With the guitar eubstance attached to the bottom , it unite to an accompanying smartphone app over Bluetooth which is responsible for rick the player ’s finger taps into actual guitar sounds — either acoustical or galvanising . And the sounds can be pick off , with reverb and other effect , all within the app . It wo n’t vocalise like a giant Fender speaker on stage , but the sound produced by your smartphone ’s speaker should befittingly match the diminutive FretPen .
The first 50 people to donate to the FretPen ’s crowdsourcing initiative can pre - regularize one for just $ 100 . But if you ’d like to hold in off until it ’s formally gone into production and polish out any bumps along the way you ’ll probably be able to snag one for close to $ 150 . And if that seems expensive for an incredibly tiny guitar , do n’t bury , as its namesake implies , the FretPen can also be used as a writing instrument for those time when you need to jot down a memorable Riffian you just came up with . [ Kickstarter ]
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