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...

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) 

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

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

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.

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:

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.

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

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