The Circle Guitar started with a question @circleinstruments founder Anthony Dickens was contemplating in 2018: ‘What if I could strum a guitar, but that strum never ends?’
He landed on the idea of sticking a wheel onto a guitar, putting a load of plectrums onto it, and spinning it by hand. So he made his first prototype – using a cheap acoustic guitar with a hole drilled into it, skateboard ball bearings, a laser-cut piece of plastic, the cheapest, thinnest plectrums he could find, and a doorknob off a kitchen cabinet.
“I started spinning it around, and it sounded amazing – you could make it sound like a swarm of bees, this incessant, endless thing. Immediately I thought, all right, there’s something there.”
Check out our cover story on Circle Guitar at the link in bio
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The list of artists who've fallen for the futuristic Circle Guitar is long and growing. They include @leekiernan6 of @idles , @mike_gordon of @phish , @mattbellamy of @muse and Ed O'Brien (@eobofficial ) of @radiohead – who helped send the instrument viral five years ago.
It's not too late to make another Christmas wish and join their ranks... Hit the link in bio for the full story of @circleinstruments
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Is this the future of electric guitar? Regardless, there's no doubt this is the most radical new guitar design of the last decade – and megastar guitarists are queuing up to explore the truly unique sounds it can create.
The Circle Guitar is on the Guitar.com cover. Hit the link in bio for the full story
Words: Josh Gardner / @josh.gard.ner
Photography: Andy Ford / @andyforduk
Location: Distillery II Studios / @thedistillery2
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The Circle Guitar certainly divides opinions with purists and players asking “why?”, but there are also those who immediately get it.
I admire people with vision, who doggedly follow their dream and realise their designs in full knowledge that it will only ever appeal to a minority. But what sounds, music, and crazy creations will that minority make with this wild new instrument?
I want one, how about you?
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Currently in a Tokyo hotel room making demos of Circle Guitar! We’re showing at Tokyo Gakki Expo this weekend. Come and say hello and have a go!
現在、東京のホテルでCircle Guitarのデモを制作中です！今週末は東京楽器博覧会に出展します。ぜひお越しいただき、演奏してみてください！どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
11/01SAT - 11/02SUN 科学技術館
入場料（1日）：￥2,000（税込） 高校生以下無料
0306 - The MIDI Association
#ギター #Guitar
#エレキギター #Electric guitar
#演奏動画
#circleguitar
#playbeyondboundaries
Currently in a Tokyo hotel room making demos of Circle Guitar! We’re showing at Tokyo Gakki Expo this weekend. Come and say hello and have a go!
現在、東京のホテルでCircle Guitarのデモを制作中です！今週末は東京楽器博覧会に出展します。ぜひお越しいただき、演奏してみてください！どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
11/01SAT - 11/02SUN 科学技術館
入場料（1日）：￥2,000（税込） 高校生以下無料
0306 - The MIDI Association
#ギター #Guitar
#エレキギター #Electric guitar
#演奏動画
#circleguitar
#playbeyondboundaries
Circle Instruments Wins 2025 MIDI Innovation Hardware Protype Award for Circle Guitar!
Check out the MIN website to find out more ⬇️⬇️
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We had a great couple of days @machinabristronica in Bristol last weekend making lots of new friends. Checkout what @zoid999 did with Circle Guitar within a couple of minutes of picking it up…
Circle Guitar - Public Reaction 6 - the lovely George Reichart @gbr.music - NAMM 2025
Circle Guitar is a rhythm machine. It empowers you to create groundbreaking new music by strumming the strings for you, freeing a hand to interact with the guitar in new ways.
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