The story of the SynthAxe is an almost mythical tale of entrepreneurship, courage, design brilliance and dogged determination. Unfortunately it's also one of overconfidence, expensive ambition and (maybe) a lack of realisation of what musicians require and (definitely) how much effort they are prepared to make to embrace something new. But the fact that anyone got this futuristic musical instrument to market is a miracle, and the story behind it is quite incredible.
So what exactly was SynthAxe? A guitar? A synth? A controller? Performance instrument? A completely new way of making and playing sound? In truth it was (a bit of) all of these. And if you own one of the 100 or so units made, you not only own a piece of music history, but one of the most ambitious instruments ever created (not to mention a sizeable investment).
