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Worlds smallest guitar is called the Nanoguitar

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The worlds smallest guitar is about the size of a single blood cell or 10 micrometers long! Good God that’s small. Can you imagine the pick that you’d have to use to play this puppy?

I got this piece from the Cornell Science News site and the article is a good read for musicians. I knew that I just had to post this one for all of you tiny guitarists out there … me included.

worlds smallest guitar: nanoguitar

The world’s smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long — about the size of a single cell — with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Made by Cornell University researchers from crystalline silicon, it demonstrates a new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices

Keep on Jammin’, very carefully though!





What does a Truss Rod on your guitar do?

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Adjusting the Truss Rod in your guitar to doctor up your action on the fretboard is something that I don’t think I’ll try on my beloved Larrivee L-03. This is something that should be left to the professionals, unless your doing this on your old beater guitar before attempting this on your good axe!

The Truss Rod in a guitar is embedded in the middle of a guitar’s fretboard, closer to the bottom of it, moving from the head of the guitar to it’s body. It consists of 1 or 2 metal bars that are designed to adjust/move the neck of the guitar up or down making it easier to play, get a unique/certain sound that you desire or to help out that buzzing sound that one gets when playing a note somewhere on the fretboard.

Trussrod At one end of the Truss Rod there is a nut that allows you to adjust it. It can be accessed by either the head of the guitar (normally there is a plastic cover over the opening) or located where the fretboard meets the body of the guitar. The other end is where the rod is anchored or fixed into position. This will give the adjusting end the tension that you will need to move the Truss Rod.

The 2 types of truss rods are single and double action.

The single truss rod allows you to move the guitar neck in one direction (or as some technicians call one way) only. This makes the neck go in an up-bow or upwards direction. If you place your guitar on a flat surface and look at it sideways, the head of it will be higher then the body of the guitar. The double lets you go both directions.

So this is a basic introduction to what the Truss Rod does in your guitar. If there is some interest on this topic here on this blog, then I will do some more detailed updates in the future!

Keep on Jammin’

Here is a great book for the intermediate guitarist that wants to know a little more about how his/her instrument works. This might make a neat Christmas present for the guitar player in your life!

One heck of a patriotic guitar

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Now this is a neat little guitar. I’m not sure if it is a Maple Leaf that they’re trying to represent here but I’ll take!

Hell even Slash, the original guitar player from Guns and Roses, is playing one!

I’m not sure who made this unique guitar or if it’s just a one of a kind model. Too bad I couldn’t find the guitar case that went with it.

It’s obvious to the trained guitarist eyes that soloing would be very limited and playing it on your lap may prove to be a problem but what the heck, eh?

Keep on Jammin’

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