I wanted to build this 10 years ago

[Märk]

Someone else finally did: http://hackaday.com/2012/05/21/player-g ... omplexity/

[Lunkhead]

Pretty awesome. Kind of sounds like a harpsichord in how the volume level of every string pluck is nearly the same.

[irwin]

I, for one, welcome our Russian guitar-playing robot overlords.

Also, how is "Freeee biiiird" not one of the top comments? That is how we will know that robot guitar players have achieved parity with their human counterparts.

[fluffy]

So apparently it's less difficult to make a real guitar sound like a bad synthesizer than it is to make a bad synthesizer sound like a real guitar.