On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:21:54 +0000, Bill Purvis wrote: I'm not that optimistic, IOW I don't think that those strings have a real guitar string tension. More likely they are slackly and won't hurt princess and little school girl fingers. From the tactile point of view I've gut serious "prejudices". I've got tendencies to use my keyboard to play drum samples and usually ignore my elCheapo drum pads, so I'm careful with buying some other plastic gear. All the times I had the money to buy a MIDI pickup for my guitar, I bought something else to make music. I suspect that a MIDI pickup is more usable, than those new devices and I also guess that most of us will find something more useful for the money. However, I might be mistaken. If I would have "enough" money, I would buy both devices ;). It would be nice to play cords and tunes on a guitar alike thingy, perhaps the nature of those devices would allow to play cords and tunes at the same time, as Stanley Jordan does on a "normal" guitar.