For guitar players, keeping the guitar in tune during a performance was nearly impossible, until now. I stopped by the EverTune booth today at the NAMM show and really couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
EverTune inventer Cosmos Lyles showed me the unit installed on a Gibson Les Paul and another on a Fender Telecaster. It basically replaces the bridge of the guitar with a specially designed EverTune unit.
Lyles claimed that the EverTune bridge would keep the guitar in tune regardless of what happened when playing. I took him up on the challenge, plucked the low E and then grabbed the tuning peg and turned it. Believe it or not, the guitar stayed in tune.
Lyles said the EverTune worked by keeping a constant tension on the string. If you want to adjust the tuning, you do it from the bridge, much the same way you would tune a guitar with a Floyd Rose on it.
All this time we’ve been waiting for technology to be the tuning savior, but it’s springs, physics and math that ended up doing it.
I am intrigued. Very intrigued.
It works ! I had one put into a new parts Tele and it’s truly a revelation. I tuned it up, didn’t even have to stretch the strings, and two weeks later after many sessions, it’s still in tune. Keeps you from having to adjust on the fly while playing.
Don’t bother actually linking to the product??
http://www.evertune.com/
But can you still bend notes?
Yes you can bend strings. Vibrato and everything. Set up properly it feels like a conventional guitar. And you can’t put the darn thing out of tune short of snapping the headstock off.