Originally Posted by: LordathestringsI speak heresy here, but this is the twistin' truth as revealed to me in more than 40 years of playin' guitar

There are reasons we can have this very discussion with folks from around the world, got other folks living for months at a time in a station floating in space... and yet the guitar model has not change much since inception.

Many things have been tried, and lots of effects have been created. But that basic instrument? Pretty much unchanged.