Evertune, a startup that promises its customers will never have to tune their guitars again, just raised $800,000 in seed funding.
It's been a good month for the Los Angeles company, which also just won an Invention Award from Popular Science. Evertune says it's finalizing testing on a guitar bridge that keeps the instrument in tune regardless of the temperature, humidity, or how a string is pulled. Normally, a guitar goes out of tune when the tension of its strings loosens. With the Evertune bridge, a set of "six spring and lever contraptions" (in PopSci's words) compensates, keeping each string at whatever tension is set by the guitarist.
The device was invented by Cosmos Lyles, a guitarist who studied engineering at Duke University. The company is now being led by new chief executive Mark Chayet, who founded CD and DVD manufacturing company Evermark. Chayet provided some of the seed round, and was joined by David Weiderman, director of artist relations at Guitar Center, William Quigley of Clearstone Venture Partners, and entrepreneur Brock Pierce.
Here's a video of Australian rock band Sick Puppies raving about the product.