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Aristides Instruments

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March 21, 2013

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Aristides Instruments is cultivating a new league of guitar heroes with revolutionary new guitars. Founder Aristides Poort and his team developed a new fiberglass material called Arium, new design approaches, and new methods of manufacturing guitars.

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Aristides Instruments

I am Timo Somers. [21 years old.] Born in Holland. [I've been playing in a lot of bands][touring around the world, recording albums. It is my passion. I can't fully express myself with words and, you know, stuff like normal people do.][ when I grab a guitar, I think I can show all my emotions and everything, let it all out,] SOT. Finishing another riff. Up and under... My name is][ Aristides Poort], and we're here at the factory of Aristides Instruments. ][located at the beautiful city of Haarlem. ][The Netherlands. it has been a love relationship since I was quite young,] it's][such an amazing cultural icon, the guitar and the electric guitar] [my background is engineering, and I've always been interested in the engineering side, the designing side, and also the musical side of this whole story, and, for me, it's just a mixing of arts, crafts, engineering, software. Beginning of Timo's Tune "At Home" up and under... Naut in V/O: I was working already with PTC Creo][And I met somebody, and he said to me, "Well, I'm working on this guitar, but ][it cannot be drawn in a computer because it's a hand sanded model, it's a very complicated shape, it cannot be done." And it challenged me, and I said, "I can do that. When I first saw Nout with the software, I thought, "Hey, who's that nerd over there?" Music out....or way under [We know what it was to do all of this handwork, and all of this tedious building][which is really][a difficult process, and, now, with PTC CREO I first saw it, it was, like, my eyes popped out. monster run on guitar The big difference between a wooden guitar and this guitar is that it comes out of a mold, an aluminum mold. And this mold, you cannot change it, it has to be perfect.][So you have to engineer everything in the computer. Till the last thousandth of a millimeter. you can stitch these surfaces continuously together, and that's a very important tool for me with PTC Creo. the computer model, as a starting point, is 100% copied into the mold So,there is no difference between the computer model and the actual guitar. so this guitar is really dynamic, and, ][ you can express yourself in many ways. [guitar playing] And you can turn it up a little bit. [guitar playing] And you can also, just, you know, hard rock riff Timo's a real virtuoso par excellence. He's, like, a magician on the strings. Or you can just go freaky with it. And then go back to the whatever. starting with an idea about a guitar, going into a design, going into a computer drawing, and actually with a lot of craftsmanship, going into the hands of the artist, it's pretty amazing to see. Up :05 and under.... TIMO: I played all over the world with this guitar, and the fan response, always really good. They think -- the design is really, really cool, and for me, the best thing is, if they say it sounds amazing, what is it? I think it has improved my playing in a way that I can fully express myself, especially in a live situation, it's the main motivation of the whole journey. I mean, when you have somebody pick up your product and create this music with it, what better things can you do on this planet? Music up and Under... I think, classics are played by heroes, but maybe it's time to make new heroes with new, different guitars, and that maybe becomes a classic on its own. Timo Sings: PTC CREO"