It is indeed pretty cool, but you probably have lots of these stories. Les Paul is probably one of the more famous stories. Most really good music technology

It is indeed pretty cool, but you probably have lots of these stories. Les Paul is probably one of the more famous stories. Most really good music technology innovations are from musicians themselves. EHV is a world-class player, but the only reason we're reading this kind of story is because of that virtuosity-- lots of folks mess around with their instruments like he was doing, though most aren't as dangerously bad at it. The stories you hear about folks making new music stuff are usually because the folks are good at making stuff, so it seems more like engineers/tinkerers who happen to play music, when that description might be flipped if we looked at how folks think of themselves.