Hydraulic Guitar

[LaterzMcGhee]

gah horrible, contrary to popular culture some humans can still play guitar

[Dakyne2]

Why would humans waste their lives developing shit like this?

[JonasClark]

@Dakyne2 When they could be developing what else?

[Dakyne2]

@JonasClark The Spirit..

[hardinmichael1981]

@JonasClark ANYTHING ELSE!!!

[cl250675]

i believe keeping it in tune is difficult because the tension varies on the strings while it's playing.

Seems like a dumb approach to me

[AaronLow1]

it even has a rythym!

[bure998]

too much technology only to reach a bad outcome.....

[MegaSonicdude10]

I kinda thought that the clicking of the servos went along nicely with the tune. As everyone else says: "TUNE THE DAMN THING!!!"

[mikaelarae15]

ok bad idea you need to tune the thing and the hydraulics are too loud to even hear the guitar...

[TheKisatilla]

Áááááááá, incredibbbblllllle sounds!

[Derekmanster]

IT"S....ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!

[turbonorsking]

is it trying to play kryptonite?:D

[Hanklebury]

The machinery is so freakin' loud, you can barely hear the guitar...which is out of tune. Who funded this?

[MeTaLdUdE02]

plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop plop

[DubstepSwagger7924]

sure it sounds terrible, but you got to admit it is pretty cool!

[ehpower2]

your guitar string tuners not fast enough you gonna need some serious gpm to get that going a lot better and some better servos to stop more accurately on the notes

[scuba2nd]

this shit is pneumatic. if it was truly hydraulic it'd be shreddin like a muthafukker

[nihilas1988]

it also has a drone lol

[doowopdiddler]

This what the salesman at long and mcquade have to listen to all day long

[rawfflecakes]

useless.

[Rikimaru168]

That's is awesome :)

[oddev]

Like the exhaust-air-bubbles-in-lab-bot­tles-filled-with-water-for-coo­l-looking-effect-but-probably-­are-made-as-a-silencer-and-had­-no-reason-to-be-on-the-table-­at-all-piece..

[stonershake]

are u shure that its not pneumatic cus i do see thows jugs of water being having are go threw them.

[MacJARedd]

They should really tune that guitar.

[breedist]

due to it's a sort of robotic liquid-powered system strength of motion is fixed but if it could be variable let say control pressure valve was installed to smooth actuators motion it would have sounded more naturally like a human finger but it all ahead.Excellent performance !

[MrTuneCat]

this is a detuned guitar :D

[vicente321]

maybe it wasn't tuned correctly for a reason. Hasn't anyone thought of that?

[TheBnmghjk]

@vicente321 And why would that be?

[TheMafiaguy22]

sounds like kryptonite by 3 doors down

[cabrahamrv]

i bet you are smart but the guitar sucks..!!

[PeterRosenqvist]

VERY COOL but USELESS !!

[SeniorFronche]

great design man, have you looked into adding some electric guitar pickups to record off? just to remove the piston clicking sound

[sonique25]

rescataría el sonido de los clicks y pops

[b4ra2]

"German engineering in da house!" indeed, and unfortunately, German musicianship is too :(

[KIRBY0007]

sounds like Big sur moon - Buckethead (:

[theskatereport]

just tune it please

[gummyform]

coming soon: hydraulic guitar lesson 1: how to tune your guitar

[LoadedWingshot]

DAMN JUST TUNE IT!

[panzarw]

Deaf tone engineers.

[MarinVillalpando15]

Haha Kryptonite. :) Pretty cool, but it seriously is out of tune.

[andyalizaga]

TUNING

[RandomAwe]

This looks like a harpsichord..... Or similar instrument mechanism.

[macman2212]

out of tune, but I really want that casino sitting in the back

[fnkdrmr86]

that is the worst shit i have ever heard. what a waste of fucking time. cant even hear the guitar, just the fuckin servos

[cjhoylemusic]

cool idea, but It would have had a much better effect if you had tuned the strings a bit more carefully.

[mycurse333]

lol 3 doors down

[skunky1991]

i like how the pheumatic plectrums make that clickin noise, makes it have a kind of drum beat

[maracasinhamacas]

please TUNE that guitar!

[dermannderskann]

nice idea but a tuning would have made it far better =)

[jenniferjuniper97]

I hope this project was privately-funded.

[leerolofson]

Shouldn't that be "German engineering in 'das haus?'"

[ibcnunabit]

Nerdiness gone amok! Interesting idea, but noisy and HEAVY!

[hamXcore]

It's so loouuudddd haha...still pretty cool

[lsakdhforefljcle]

is it playing kryptonite by 3 doors down

[bigdautorio]

@lsakdhforefljcle Yea and that first song sounded like highway to hell didnt it?

[FOT368]

im pretty sure this isnt a demo on tone, or the tuning... its demoing how they can manipulate hydraulics to do different and unique tasks

[makahuro]

they could atleast tune the motherfucking shit

[updog]

Tone deaf brainiacs.

[weeonu]

Kind of like listening to my lil brother play guitar hero when he has head phones on. Why don't they spend the millions invested in this on something worth while? Wow we can make hydraulics strum a guitar who knew. Except for everyone on earth who has ever heard of hydraulics. I am sure if you went back in time this would have been amazing. sorry

[CoyoteBoyUK]

This will have been someones pet project, just for interests sake and been made from spare parts cheaply. Sure it's not as good as a human player, I'm fairly sure the maker didn;t think it would be, they just made it for fun. Lighten up.

[nrdesign1991]

Damn! You tortured my ears with that out-of-tune guitar! But anyways, nice machine!

[jakkajack]

but the Machine create by human

[Drummer61190]

Machine isn't better than human...

[MrSaturos]

the second song that's being played sounds awfully similar to the introduction to three doors down - kryptonite...

[MLTNA7X]

because it is 3 doors down - Kryptonite :P

[MrSaturos]

ha that probably explains it then :P slightly out of tune, or maybe that's just because there doesn't appear to be any kind of amp setup, but still a recognisable tune :)

[Kennyiavh]

Was the first one from "Tommy"?

[rurokenrox]

ugh...that's amazing and all but it sounds terrible like it needs tuned REAL bad

[rasmAn2]

if the pump was in another room it could sound nice. you have automatic drumming by the cilinders

[dicktilton]

They could have

tuned the guitar... at least some of the other mechanical and animated instruments have a pleasant sound. Interesting to hear some people praise the music... we need to restore art and music programs in the schools!

[dezeddy]

the sound is shite

[azraaell]

why is the guitar there?

[7ossam88]

It seems to be useless and it costs too much but in fact it is a great experiment for me as mechanical engineer ;)

[TheIrishCanuck]

thats just stupid an impractical

[scratchyflame]

They said the same thing about the computer when it first came out.

:P

[StickyTank]

the least you could have was tune the guitar :)

cool project tho

[PRSCE25]

shit

[stanada08]

kids... this is why techno is bad. robots make terrible music

[TheBitcrasher]

XDDD

Huge joke man... XDDD

[DvLnnn]

Techno music isn't made by robots. It's made by normal people with a life and cut their hair.

[LanceVsWild]

I have a life and I have long hair, are you making unpleasant implications that all human beings with long hair have such because their lives are bleak? I love Techno music, as well as other genres of music; Just because I have long hair doesn't mean I listen to metal.

[anon540]

What the hell kind of techno are you listening to?

[Fou3Fan]

@stanada08 not the same thing. humans make techno with computers

[NoobUBoob]

oh. this is just great. i can see it now. when robot take over. they will use all our instruments. and never give them back to us. oh, just fukkin great.

[woodendoll95]

oh im sorry all you nay sayers i guess your water guitar is just so much better

[paulcore2000]

Sounds like flipper having a bad hairball day. give it up and find a vagina to play with, music is not your thing.

[DirtyMosha]

they could at least tune it for ffs

[goodluckpeace44]

they should onluy makea machine that can play rhe guitar differently

[zaraki08kenpachi]

Make it play Battery XD

[biohealz]

sounds like shit but nice try

[lietz13]

It is actually kinda cool that this is even possible.

[jcthedrummer]

and see kids, if you study hard at your science projects you to can spend thousands of dollars making a horribly out of tune useless guitar that runs on water, or club soda, or what ever the fuck it is.

[DaBigMan550]

hmmm... another person making fun of something he (or she) doesnt understand. Perhaps instead of the jokes, you could congradulate the guitar player who is smart enough to do this?

[clintonearlwalker]

'ats a real toe tapper!

[rotatingwah]

better title: another out of tune robot guitar

[jxguitarr]

La música no es ciencia ni matemàtica. sin sentimiento no hay música.

[TAKENnameARGH]

the theory and feeling of music are compatible, dude.

[nequefus]

El significado de musica es, "El bien combinar una secuencia de sonidos, silencios y ritmos". Aqui lo unico que oigo es mucho ruido de una maquina inservible sin nada de ritmo y silencio es lo que menos hay. Y aparte es una maquina y no se compara a un verdadero humano. Muy, muy, muy, muy, muy desafinada aparte. En resumen: Music machine=EPIC FAIL XD

[slambamm1]

state a casa che è mejo

[ponchovia135]

AHHHHH so out of tune. It's not even a guitar. The strings already have a note to them and there is no fret board. I mean, its cool and all, but it just doesn't do it for me.

[mdt1609]

so why would someone do this? it seems rather pointless....

[silentfrequency]

it's more of a hydraulic autoharp. and as impressive as it is, it's slightly out of tune!

[nicodanger13]

Ci vuole un software anche per accordare?

E' tutta calante da non poterla ascoltare!

[SockEntertainmentNow]

needs a couple of pickups me thinks

[akm5176]

will you damn scientist leave musical instruments alone!? stop trying to design instruments to be played by machines when you havent even spoken to a trained muscian on how it should be played. just because it looks like our hands move in a mundane way does not mean they do, there is a lot more to playing music then just hitting the string with the pic. this is complete and utter crap youve essentially hocked up midi to hydraulics i am NOT impressed

[ehsanul]

Nice.

It shouldn't really be a called a guitar though, given that there's no fretboard.. But what else would you call it I guess, lol.. Is there any other stringed instrument that is played mainly by adjusting the tension in the strings?

[Ubernaut]

Play some thrash metal on it. Haha.

[Shadowcontheoriginal]

minus the white noise its probably plays some good tunes.

[csSpetzNaz]

sounds really out of tune!

[EvilKnebl]

lol and what is this good for? omg

[Takkantis]

Very cool, yeah thoe, if the strings wern't stretched on struming it would sound soooo much better, and I also think it would be cool to try and incorporate the mechanical clicks as drum beats... they almost sound like it already in some parts.

[guitarboy32]

Kryptonite!

[finallytina]

the picks are oriented the wrong way, and are adding a lot to the poor intonation by stretching the string before it is released, as well as adding a lot of un-musical noise.

They need to hit the strings with the plane of the pick at nearly right angles to the strings and need to be set so that they don't hook or stretch the strings but brush them like a cam lobe.

This is like Mel Bay beginner guitar instruction book page two stuff, and speaks a lot to the background research on this project.

[trailerwolf]

tune it and it will be perfect. tone deaf basterds....

[ingej32]

not bastards, but they ar really tone deaf yes!

[callingthunder]

great imagination, inspiring...you obviously put a lot of work into it...weird overtones though, no damping mechanism? As a guitar player, I've always been gratified to know that a guitar STRUM in one of the hardest things to synthesize. Especially up and down rhythmic strumming...too much random shit going on - keep up the good work, though...fascinating

[michaelbogutzki]

tune that thing... gees....

[ZeeManDWeasel]

Awesome idea!!! :D nice of you to play a three doors down song too :P

[nukebass]

This thing plays better than some guitar players I know :-)

[seahinchey]

horrible.

[Uugla]

Sick

[anport]

i'm luvin' it!

[wahkean]

impressive. now what?

[marmaladekamikaze]

Great work man!

[tommee10533]

This looks like a pneumatic set up and that you're using the water to muffle the exaust.

[KAPORALDANGER]

WOW !!! thats good

[therealprozac]

Now all you need to do is figure out a way to fret notes to play chords etc.

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[persiaruler]

hey whats up with all these negative comments, cheer up for the engineers, this is some excellent engineering, cheers up

[HydraulicGuitar]

You've got just the right timing!

The softwareupdate is almost finished. After that the guitar will tune itself automatically. Even the friction based errors will be put in a lookup table. Recent tests are showing decent results.

We hope to upload new videos as soon as possible.

Thanks for your comment and stay tuned! Team IFAS

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RWTH-Aachen University

[TheScottishDragon]

@persiaruler it's pretty cool.....too bad the sound couldn't be little more in tune...there are probably issues within it's self right there though, being in water.....

[eatsleep69]

that was stupid

[05rsx]

Lol yea tune that bitch tonedeaf German!

[fogaoagas]

looolll

tune that sucker

[psx1337]

For some reason this made me crack the hell up. By the way are you familiar with Hydraulis? (the organ)

[GotDangit]

I think guitar lessons would be a lot cheaper.

[HydraulicGuitar]

...quite a lot.

But the Hydraulic Guitar was developed to show how a connection between music and fluidpowered engineering can be made. It's just a goodie.

[evounnamed]

you mean the connection between being a dweeb and and engineer, when i see things like this it makes me ashamed to put my self in the same catagorie

[tempermentel]

@GotDangit lol probably, but this is pretty neat too!

[cycoclown5150]

i like it. Good Video.

[goochman]

its out of tune LOOL jajaja

[HydraulicGuitar]

Of course you are right! As it is set up right now, it is out of tune. And as one can imagine it is the friction that gives us quite some trouble. But wait until we got our new flatwound strings, the measurement of the friction done and a FFT, that gives us a chance to calculate the friction while tuning the guitar.

[goochman]

amazing indeed :) very impressed

[vickersmaster]

whata fuck is that? lol

[edgararruda]

Joe Pass like to see that much...