It has also been perfected in a guitar called the Solange 6 from Industrial Radio. I was pretty certain at that moment that I was on to something new, however this idea has been around for awhile, likely originating with the Guitorgan, which used this fret-detection method to drive an old school electric organ. It's an alternative to hexaphonic pickup guitar synths that detects actual physical contact instead of processing signals. The logical conclusion of this insight is that if you wire up all of the frets and strings of a guitar (yes I used a bass) to a micro-controller, you should be able to detect what notes are being fretted by testing the electrical conductivity between the frets and the strings! Combined with code to send MIDI messages and routed to a synthesizer, this creates a cool new way interface your guitar to your electronic setups. Somehow I got around to thinking about electronics and guitars at the same time, and it occurred to me that whenever you press a string against a fret you are making an electrical path between the two. Here's a weird one for all you MIDI enthusiasts out there.
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