The Kyub kickstarter is the cutting edge blueprint for manufacturing musical instruments.
Presellling and Idea Validation
By using kickstarter, the Kyub team is able to see if there is a market for their product. The Kyub is a way cool esoteric MIDI controller, that is beloved by a small group of people. Kickstarter allows the team to test the viability of the product before making more devices, and assembling additional product support resources.
Take a moment to look at this guitar making shop in foothills of the Himilayas. The 2 minute video is a great story about the transformational qualities of art and music. The Dehradun guitar company was formed to provide work, create jobs and build community.
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Beautiful musical instruments are timeless, and a few posts reminded us that there are no shortcuts to quality. Little details have the unique ability to amaze in both directions.
These reinforcements by Esq Guitars are super classy are should be celebrated. What makes an instrument go from Good to Great? MBAs study companies 
Looking Through The Lens Backwards: Great to Good
This provocative video compares a Gibson guitar to an imitation from China. Most youtube reviewers comparing imitation guitars aren’t as tough, but this guy colorfully explains how the little things making a Gibson guitar a special instrument, and why the imitation is rubbish.
Here is a photo from inside of our labs.
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Peter Paul Prince once wrote an article for the Journal of the Violin Society of America in which he listed some essential words that could be employed to describe the sound of a fiddle. Here they are: hard, mellow, even, nasal, open, ringing, muted, full, hollow.
Nornam Pickering, an acoustics expert compiled his own list of words for sound and it was much longer. “Rough, hollow, thin, pure, flutey, metallic, resonant, dry, somber, clear, even, uneven, brilliant, wolfy, elegant, lively, raw, sonorous, muted, dark, light, plumy, tubby, harsh, pinched, aggressive, silky, silvery, golden, nobel, constricted, smooth, mellow, bright, dull, piercing, shrill, nasal, fuzzy, scratchy, rich, full, weak, powerful, sweet.”
Those quotations come from “The Violin Maker” by John Marchese. It documents the work of luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz currently living in Brooklyn.
Words provide an amazing tool for understanding the things around us. How do you describe sound?
Shape Changing Instruments 