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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

I gave up trying to play the guitar when I was 12 years old. This was approximately two weeks after I started learning it. Truth be told, I never quite got to the “playing” stage of things; I realized ...

But are one-button chords really playing? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It seems every other week, some plucky crowd-funded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...