ToneRite Gives Instruments Vintage Tone by Playing Them for You
If you are too busy, or too impatient, to break in your stringed instrument, you might want to consider a new hobby. Still, a small start-up in Gainesville, Florida might have a device that'll get that vintage tone for you -- without much work or time.
According to The New York Times, the small plastic box, called ToneRite, slips onto the strings of a violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar ...
While GPS is sometimes criticized for killing the art of map-reading (and for sending tourists hundreds of miles in the wrong direction), the navigation technology recently made headlines by helping one man recover a $500,000 violin. Returning from the Hamptons last Monday, musician Hahn-Bin accidentally left his 18th century Giovanni Francesco Pressenda violin in a New York City taxi cab. ...








