Marriage Moats-gTar
Published: Mon, 10/15/12
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 The other day he told us about a guitar that has a dock for your IPhone to snap into. You choose what song you want to play, and the strings light up to tell you where to pluck. It even mutes your mistakes.
Talk about instant success. I suspect the instrument is more elegant than I was at actually transferring technical skills to the dozens of young hopefuls whose parents shelled out ten bucks a lesson for six months. At the spring recital they usually looked a tad lost amidst the group of students all strumming Leaving On a Jet Plane. Parents clapped and took pictures but did not sign up for another string of eight classes. They moved on to ceramics. Can't blame em. If I sounded that bad I would have quit too. But this new gizmo changes all that. The gTar and IPhone virtually eliminate the possibility of failure, like the magician who shoves a card in your face and slides the others out of reach.
"Pick a card, any card!" You turn it over, feeling vaguely as if you chose it, while the crowd gasps at the ace of spades. You feel exaggeratedly clever but you aren't sure why. No matter. The trick is over.
I wonder how long it will be before there is an app for harmonizing marital conversation. I imagine it gets hooked to the corner of your mouth, much like a Bluetooth latches to your ear. It silences all negative comments, and transposes demands into requests festooned by heaps of praise. It is calibrated to adjust voice quality and decibel levels to match those used when you were dating.
Couples could speak instantly in concert. Comments that left their cerebral cortex a moment ago as sharp as knives would emerge as a cooing verbal caress.
Any suggestions for a name? ISpeak? Photo by Joy Feerrar
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