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Not everyone is blessed with musical talent. But that’s OK, because technology can make up for what we lack. I just tried out a digital guitar that made me feel like a virtuoso despite having no ...

Magic Instruments co-founder and CEO Brian Fan knows the pain of learning new instruments. A Juilliard-trained pianist before starting his own company, he spent years trying to learn the guitar, only ...

90% of people who try to learn guitar quit in the first year. So when Brian Fan wanted to start strumming out lullabies for his baby daughter, he reinvented the instrument itself. Suddenly, a single ...

The creator of the new Magic Instruments guitar says it can play anything a real guitar can, but without having to learn the fingerings of a real guitar. Adam Balkin filed the following report. This ...

Most anyone who listens to guitar-heavy music — whether it be electric or acoustic — has probably wanted to play guitar at one point or another. While plenty of people do learn, at least a little, it ...

Magic Instruments, a San Francisco-based musical instrument startup, has recently launched a Reg CF offering on WeFunder. The company successfully raised $415,000 through its Indiegogo campaign in ...

This Juilliard-trained musician hated the UI of the traditional guitar, so he set out to design a better one. The Rhythm Guitar is the brainchild of Magic Instruments CEO Brian Fan. Although he’s ...

It seems every other week, some plucky crowd-funded company is trying to make learning guitar easier, and the latest to join the callus-dodging crew is Magic Instruments, with its button-rammed MI ...

Recorded on April 18, 2016. The electronic guitar from magic instruments helps you learn how to play guitar. Have a +1 you’d like to bring to Disrupt? Bring them along and save 60% on their pass. Or ...