360 degree spinning guitar neck motor idea?

[coltonpiano]

you could hook it up to a pedal like a gas pedal that allows you to control the speed of rotation. If you set 0 rotation to the mid point of pressing the pedal you could control going forward or backward with just one pedal too

[MLoerAudio]

I don’t know what this batshit crazy thing is or why you’d want one, but I’m damn impressed by the work you’ve put into making it. Godspeed, you musical madman

[riddixdan]

even if it won't be functional, this is a piece of art that looks amazing

[HyphenatedReality]

I think controlling the rotation's speed and direction with your feet would make a lot of sense. Using an expression pedal that functions quite literally as a pedal for the motor would just be a cool flex to have in a pedal board.

You mentioned something about tuning stability in a previous post, too, right? Going fretless or using a metal/glass slider could possibly help while it's rotating, and some guitarists even use violin bows to play, so a combination of slider + violin bow while the neck is rotating could sound trippy in the right hands and pedalboard. Another thing to possibly consider is a locking/muting mechanism, with one button that you can stop the motor in place and another to mute the notes on the back if you're playing a more free-handed approach

[CommunityGuidelines]

If you want to play it while it's spinning, you'd need a bow (or a stationary pick), and for the frets, you'd need a guitar slide, to protect your fingers.
If you want to switch back and forth between guitar/bass/etc, you'd need to automatically silence the unused strings, otherwise it would be super noisy.
It reminds me of a reverse hurdy-gurdy, where instead of the bow turning, the strings are turning.
Looks really cool!

[Enchurito]

You've kinda created a hurdy gurdy. This thing looks like it needs to be bowed

[madeintexasd]

I think connecting a stepper motor with an encoder would be cool. It could spin it at a pretty quick constant speed and has a good amount of torque and it could also switch between strings. You could create code that jumps between certain strings to play a specific song. It really could do everything you could possibly want and could easily be controlled by an Arduino or Raspberry PI.

[drevilvs]

Strange that Rob Scallon isn't hanging somewhere around

[Tristanhx]

Only rotate the strings upwards in the direction of the fret fingers. Otherwise they'll slip underneath the strings and it could break your fingers.

[ahobimo]

Foot pedal with presets is definitely the way to go.

This is an insanely cool idea, BTW. This is my first time seeing it, and it's kinda blowing my mind.

[DoctorPhilGud]

You could spin it by hand while playing and have the pickups interacting with only the strings on the front side, so that only the ones youre currently playing will make a tone and you dont have to worry about grabbing the back half

[fischer-felix]

Sounds like a cool idea. For the motor I would either go with a stepper motor, since it has precise control. However they tend to be quite bulky, so maybe a wiper blade motor from a car or something could work, but you'd lose the control aspect.

[coma-body-stilllife]

I was imagining that just the neck would rotate creating a natural sustain for notes played with the frets friction against the static strings, but this is way more developed

[NikoDood]

I think that instead of having the neck of the guitar rotate freely, there should be a clamp attached to the body that interlocks with notches in the neck. When the clamp is engaged, the neck is locked in a fixed position, so it plays like a normal guitar. If you want to spin the guitar, you use your strumming hand/arm to push a lever that releases the clamp, and your fingering hand to spin the neck around. I think this is a simpler way of having the “presets” you were talking about, without having to deal with programming a motor.

[jiminnorthdallas]

Wow! The Unitar! (or Multitar). I like the idea of the neck having customizable preset spin stops, so the player can set it for each instrument section, OR a combo of any two sections, depending on the song requirements. (fretless bass/fretted bass, bass/guitar, etc.)
Keep at it! ❤

[Gambello]

A sling-powered motor thats attached to your strap, when you lower the guitar the neck turns clockwise (from the headstock) and up counterclockwise

[playNsleep]

I think control with feet is probably the best way to do it for a guitar player, and have presets so if you press one button on the floor (similar design to a guitar pedal) it would swap so you can play the bass strings, then hit the other button to go back to the guitar part and then other presets for other cool sounds or tunings

[FedericoAltolaguirre]

Use a servo motor to have fine control of the position of the neck
Also, use a foot pedal/switches to select how the neck rotates

[milokojjones]

I have a question - How will you hold it ?

Because when you think about it, with a normal guitar, you just sort of hold it by the neck and than use the other hand to play the strings, but on this rotating neck, it will be really uncomfortable at the very least to hold the guitar, since it will constantly twist your hand and every time you would swich the strings, you'd not only have to move your hand up and down, but also compensate for the rotational movement, even if it was a slow one.

Maybe you explained it somewhere and I just missed it, but it just confuses me a bit. Definetly a cool project tho.

[drewdee]

how are you planning to pick up the sound from the strings? is there some kind of crazy cylindrical pickup design that would work or maybe you could mount it over the strings? idk how you would make that pretty though. or maybe piezo pickups in each string saddle?