How many times have you found yourself in the mountains with your acoustic guitar, sitting around the campfire, trying to tune up so you can burst into a rendition of Kumbaya or On Top of Spaghetti and ensure perfect pitch, when—dammit!—you realize that you left your guitar tuner back in Hoboken? Or maybe you’re at the karaoke bar and you know that Night Moves is in G…but you just can’t remember where G is, exactly. Fret no further, for a guitarist who feels your pain has created “digital pitch pipes” and is selling them online in various formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and (DRM-free) AAC for the bargain-basement price of $1 apiece. The author claims that once he’s made $100,000 for recording himself hitting notes on a guitar he will generously license the whole collection under Creative Commons.
I’d write more, but I think instead I’ll sit down and record myself hitting notes for five minutes, then sell the files online for $0.50. Beat that, sucker!
Digital Pitch Pipes [TelltaleWeekly]
