Future guitars, what will they be like?

[LakewoodM32Fan]

The gaming industry, especially those who play FPS (first person shooters) have acknowledged this and capitalized on it.

I'm typing right now on a Razer keyboard that is essentially the modern, gaming-optimized version of that IBM keyboard, and you don't want to know how much I paid for it (it is programmable and has backlight multicolored LEDs).

And yes my housemates know when I'm typing even if they're two rooms away.

Originally Posted by dwasifar

Ask any computer keyboard connoisseur (yes, we exist) about what makes a good keyboard, and the number one response will be tactility. There are virtual keyboards that project onto any flat surface and watch your fingers for keystrokes. They are frustratingly difficult to use, whereas the best typing experience is widely understood to be 1980s-vintage IBM keyboards with heavier key resistance and longer key travel than almost any currently-manufactured design. Typists are faster and more accurate when using these old keyboards that require more force. Likewise, a guitar that removed physical tactile feedback from the design would be a huge usability regression.

And yes, I am typing on one of those IBM keyboards right now.

[FingahPickah]

I wonder what guitars Keith Richards will be playing in 100 years

[dwasifar]

Originally Posted by LakewoodM32Fan

The gaming industry, especially those who play FPS (first person shooters) have acknowledged this and capitalized on it.

I'm typing right now on a Razer keyboard that is essentially the modern, gaming-optimized version of that IBM keyboard, and you don't want to know how much I paid for it (it is programmable and has backlight multicolored LEDs).

And yes my housemates know when I'm typing even if they're two rooms away.

Cherry blues?

[RP]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Carbon fiber guitars will be more mainstream and less expensive...

I also think that guitars of the future will be made from more synthetic materials and in more organic shapes like Emeralds...

[LakewoodM32Fan]

Originally Posted by dwasifar

Cherry blues?

Black widow.

[Taylor Ham]

Originally Posted by Dyson Guitars

Four piece tops and backs.

This is a pretty serious prediction. I think guitar enthusiasts will have to accept breaking some conventions that were fairly arbitrary in the first place. Even on small instruments, its usually advisable to join a bookmatched piece of wood, for stability. The days where you can easily find a large enough tree to do that only once, are going by fast.

[xzy]

Originally Posted by Taylor Ham

This is a pretty serious prediction. I think guitar enthusiasts will have to accept breaking some conventions that were fairly arbitrary in the first place. Even on small instruments, its usually advisable to join a bookmatched piece of wood, for stability. The days where you can easily find a large enough tree to do that only once, are going by fast.

Classical guitars are built with four piece tops and backs by one of the greatest luthiers of our time...Jose Romanillos.

He routinely uses three, four, or even five pieces for his tops, and four pieces for the backs. I'm pretty sure no one here could afford one of his instruments.

I believe my Doerr had a four piece cedar top.

[Mandobart]

The future, like the past, is never what its cracked up to be.

We still don't have consumer grade jet packs, flying cars, adjustable clothes or a 3 day work week.

Guitars 100 years from now will look and sound a lot like they do now. Half or more of the guitars that will be played in 100 years are being played right now.

[TiffanyGuitar]

I think they won't be much different than they are today, if we haven't killed each other off in some horrific way. If you look at guitars from 100 (or even 100+) years ago, they were pretty much the same. In 100 years, there will be more accepted material choices that are alternates to ebony and rosewood. I also agree that reforestation of the more limited varieties will be wide spread. Unfortunately, I disagree about which "pre-war" guitars people will be interested in. I think there will be another, but I hope I am wrong.

[Wellington]

There won't be any because guitars will be 'canceled' because someone got offended by them.

[Guitarplayer_PR]

Don't we have guitars right now which were built in the year 2525?

[dwasifar]

Originally Posted by Guitarplayer_PR

Don't we have guitars right now which were built in the year 2525?

no no no no no no no don't say the Z word.

[Guitars44me]

Maybe not these woods, but perhaps a lot of these features...

Here is the build thread for my Fifth John Kinnaird Monster Custom:

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=582062

" impossible to see, the future is." Yoda

Play the best ones you got!

Paul

[Alan Carruth]

Due to climate change Brazilian rosewood will be common in the US as far north as Missouri in 300 years, but Alpine softwoods for tops will be almost unavailable. The guitar will have gone out of favor sometime around 2100, but there will be a revival in interest in 'Early instruments' by then. The only surviving acoustic guitars from the late-20th century 'Golden Age' will be a few Ovations in museums, and the wood in the tops will have deteriorated beyond use. All paper books will have been long recycled, and few records will exist on 'obsolete' acoustic instruments. Some historians will have figured out that other types of construction were preferred, and a lot of effort will go into sourcing enough cloned spruce for a top. Researchers at the University of Hudson's Bay will assemble a working replica, and make a beginning at learning to play it, but they will be unable to record it due to the lack of a digital port.

[bufflehead]

I'm willing to bet that someone will come up with something more resilient than a nitro finish. Something that makes the concept of a relic guitar obsolete.