Guitar String Vending Machine!

[MVega]

I was in the train station in Poitiers (France) today and what did I see?

 

A guitar string vending machine! I couldn't believe it!

 

They had a few different sets of Ernie Balls, Martins, Elixirs, a few other brands. Also had a few different types of (Dunlop) picks, a Korg tuner, a Planet Waves cable, a string winder.... Prices were pretty reasonable too.

 

Maybe I don't get out all that much... but I've never seen this before. Next step will be sell guitars from the machine too...

[The Troglodyte]

Interesting! Haven't seen any of them in London yet.

 

Was it a coffee machine looking thing, or a more of a vending machine look (what am I doing with my life) 

[MVega]

It was the kind of machine with the corkscrew mechanism where half the time the thing you asked for doesn't fall...

[cstewart]

Getting ripped off a candy bar is one thing.  If my $20 tuner doesn't fall, I'm tipping the machine over.

[Longstreet]

Getting ripped off a candy bar is one thing.  If my $20 tuner doesn't fall, I'm tipping the machine over.

Shit, I do that for the candy bar.

 

I need my sugar fix damnit, and there is no way im letting some punk-ass vending machine go with my 2 euro's without surrendering its candy.

[smirocsmo]

I am pretty sure that such a guitar string vending machine is in Japan too :lol: :lol: there are vending machines everywhere :lol:

 

But in France that is real surprise :lol:

[MVega]

It's from a company called Cordes Express http://www.cordesexpress.com/ , looks like they also ship to other countries in Europe too. I just ordered from them, had my strings in a couple of days, and no tipping over machines required.

[queer1]

What a GENIUS machine!!!!  I wiish i could find one near me, but alas here in the New Mexico desert, we are often a decade behind the general polulous which is behind the French/Japanese (or anywhere else for that mater) by at least a few decades.  haha

[Younha]

My friend has seen one in Nashville, TN. But it's also known as Music City lol. This picture is from imgur of a recording studio in LA. Best of all worlds. Strings and drum sticks. Batteries for equipment/active pickups. Snacks for nourishment. Earplugs for working with drummers. Advil for the headache for forgetting to put earplugs on while working with a drummer.

 

http://i.imgur.com/dwliu.jpg