In rock music, innovations take a long time. The first electric guitars that actually stayed in tune and worked well for stage performance were produced in the 1950s, and the basic design – fretboard, ...

Innovation reigns supreme with a user-friendly, beautifully playable guitar that features automatic self-tuning, multiple in-guitar effects, and wireless pedal control Nashville, Tennessee: On Friday ...

Way back in 2007 Gibson rolled out its first “robot” guitar, featuring motorized tuners that could quickly tune up the instrument without much player intervention—and even switch between common ...

Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz smashed a traditional guitar at the start of a press conference today at New York's Hard Rock Cafe. After doing so, he unveiled the company's newest invention ...

Gibson’s new Firebird X guitar, a high-tech model that boasts automatic tuning, built-in audio effects and support for downloadable apps, hopes to marry the worlds of music and modern electronics in ...

Gibson's been riding the wave of tech for quite a while now — launching several "robot" guitars featuring functions such as fully automated tuning systems. For that, we give them credit: guitar ...

Enthusiasts of vintage electric guitars might well lay an egg at this news, because Gibson has brought the Platypus Firebird back from extinction, with the transitional 1965 ‘bird resplendent its ...

Best of 2019: With its arcane switching system, robot tuners, Bluetooth accessories and clunky software, the Gibson Firebird X is a nigh-on impossible electric guitar to love. But for many guitar ...

Announced at CES 2011, the Gibson Firebird X has been a fascinating example of a traditional instrument maker building something that, arguably, is quite revolutionary. The Firebird X is essentially a ...

Guitar-maker Gibson has a problem on their hands. After nearly a century of producing some of the most storied guitars in existence for, from the Les Paul electrics to genre-defining acoustics, Gibson ...