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Local designer Craig Berman proposes an unusual mashup of modern musical instruments:
Considering the nostalgia for '80s music and popularity of chiptune, could this be the perfect successor to the keytar?
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chicago office space / June 30, 2009 3:49 PM
They invented that already, it's called guitar hero ;P.