...is literally microscopic.


http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html

TAKEN FROM ARTICLE:
...(the guitar) has been made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics.

The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force microscope, for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell.

Holy cow! So is it just on display? How can anyone actually play it?


TIS

Maybe a shredding virus? Seriously though, its from 1997, so I wouldnt be at all surprised if they've gone further. Apparantly there's a whole range of microscopic instruments made, just... well just to be there I guess.

But yeah, this really strcuk a chord with me. Even if it is considered of little note. Dont fret, these lame puns will soon be over. Er. Guitars.