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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Phil Weller

“Occasionally, you get to play something that makes you think in a totally different way”: The Circle Guitar is a wild “hyperinstrument” that’s revolutionizing the guitar – and Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has already bought one

Circle Guitar - Ed O'Brien.

NAMM 2025 was, as ever, full of massive gear drops and absolutely ridiculous releases in equal measure. For every Marshall amp-in-a-box pedal, there was a next-gen Fart pedal, a MonoNeon Whammy, or something just as bonkers.

But perhaps the most eye-catching innovation of the entire show was the Circle Guitar – a new innovation developed by Circle Instruments, which has been described as “a hyperinstrument that transforms what a guitar can do”.

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