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Olikos se vai, joka lanseerasi 7-kielisen? Sehän sen ainakin teki tunnetuksi. Eikös van halenilla ollut sormensa pelissä floyd rosen kehittämisessä?
 
Guitarist Floyd Rose invented the so called Floyd Rose Tremolo for guitars.'
 
Floyd Rose invented the whammy bar in the 1970s and helped guitar players produce new sounds from their electric guitars. Rose designed and perfected what he called the double locking tremolo system, which allowed guitarists to radically bend guitar strings with the whammy bar and remain confident that the strings would always stay in tune.
 
He has since started the Floyd Rose Guitar Co. of Redmond, Wash., which makes guitars of his own design, using more than 16 patented inventions such as moving pickups, one-bolt neck assemblies, and an integrated Floyd Rose tremolo that eliminates the need to lock the strings.
 
Rose designed his guitar using Catia CAD software from IBM of Armonk, N.Y., and Dassault Systemes of Paris.
 
He spent more than nine years designing his guitar, incorporating many new features to improve playability, sound, and performance, he said. For instance, Rose positions the guitar's knobs and controls so they don't interfere with the player's hand. Strings are cut to within 0.0001-inch tolerance and can be changed in under 30 seconds, he said.
 
Using the CAD software, Rose digitally designed each of the guitar's hundreds of parts to his specifications. Then, he assembled the parts in a 3-D digital mock-up model and produced a prototype based on that digital model.
 
Rose previously used an outside shop for his numerical control work. But for production of the new guitar, he purchased two milling machines as well as Catia software applications that allow for surface machining and multi-axis support. He wants to create a guitar production facility where design and manufacturing are integrated by use of Catia software, he said.
 
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