Circle Guitar’s semi-automation frees your hand to interact with the instrument in new ways, such as muting strings to create unusual timbres, or devising new chord shapes that use two hands.

All of the Circle Guitar’s mechanical parts are housed in a single 3D-printed unit, according to Guitar World. Plectrums slotted into the rotating motor can play at up to 250bpm (beats per minute).

The Circle Guitar is still at the prototype stage of development, though Dickens told us that he has already received his first order. The video below shows it in action.

They completed the project just before lockdown and posted a few videos online. Circle Guitar has now attracted interest from world-class musicians including Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien.

The guitar has 128 slots for guitar picks to be placed in, and these strike the strings instead of a player’s pick hand. To add even more scope to the music, the force the picks strike the ...

Called the Circle Guitar and created by [Anthony Dickens], the novel instrument features a constantly-rotating wheel around the guitar’s pickups in the body.

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Say hello to Circle Guitar, an electric guitar with a built in mechanical step sequencer, "to generate sounds, textures and rhythms that would be impossible with a conventional electric guitar," ...

The Circle Guitar sort of looks like a regular guitar, but it’s controlled by a spinning wheel with 16 individual magnets that strike the strings. It allows for rhythms you could never produce ...

King Crimson founder and guitar innovator Robert Fripp will be hosting a four-day “Introduction to the Guitar Circle” workshop on October 22-26, 2020 at Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga ...