Pat Metheny Orchestrion guitar jazz

ragtimewest.com designs, builds and sells robotic musical instruments of all types. Check out this video of an automated guitar playing with a banjo! We have had the honor to have designed and built more thatn 18 of the instruments used in the Pat Metheny Orchestrion project on tour now. I ave recently been interviewed by the New York Times and Jazz Times. CBS Sunday morning has called to come here from New York to interview and film RagtimeWest for there show airing in March, 2010.

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[kenquien]

Yes, the owner of Wall Drugs has resisted maintenance on many things there, included his singing cowboys, which he asked us to replace someday. 5 years of playing commercially will cause a need for some maintenance, but most of all they turned the volume down so low you can't hear it because of complaints that they can't talk over it from the staff who work nearby. We had the same problem at Disneyland.

[kenquien]

I did, but never implemented the hardware due to lack of customer request. The microphone and recording technique lacked the ability to show you how it sounds in real life. It sounds better personally.

[Innercynic]

The banjo is not off time you retards.

[JPCustomGuitars]

You're my boy BLUE!!!!

[amukher1]

@jonsolo1038 Yes it is.

[0ldSandwich]

Saw something like this in at Wall Drug. The accordion didn't work, the bits plucking the banjo strings didn't pluck, and all but two of the guitar strings were broken.

Paying a dollar to hear Across the Universe... only to hear a bass drum and one guitar note every five seconds or so... didn't seem right

[derman077]

And the robot said,"Of course a machine can make music."

[jonsolo1038]

is that dust in the wind?

[vidmanproductions]

very clever.

[4tomhenry]

Three hours straight the guy just blasted the audience with his genius on the guitar... I think he is the EINSTEIN of guitar now!!!

[4tomhenry]

Just saw Pat in Seattle.... my mouth wide open the whole time and I think I wore out the front of my balcony front row seat... I have been a fan for over 25 years... YES I love to see him with Lyle etc... but this is a great shot at enjoying his fascination with the mechanical piano from years as a child... I relate!! I know the same story as I loved them too.... KEEP GOING ON PAT!!!

[961carman]

I don't believe the future of music lies here!!! At all. I was at the concert in Palermo a few nights ago. Dynamics so flat... incoherence between the magical improvisation at its apex and the groove the machine creates... Great songs, but they would sound much much better if interpreted by Lyle mays, Steve Rodby, Antonio Sachez... The Orchestrion is only a "divertissement" of a superstar. It won't give anything more to the greatness of a musician I adore...

[insaneguitarfreak]

OMG Be careful Tommy Emmanuel, your career is in danger!!!

Robo-picking is coming!!!^^

(obviously TE is the best on the universe^^)