PEORIA MAGAZINE September 2022

T U R N E R C E N T E R H O N O R E E

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR Entrepreneur Michael Kuzma’s self-operating guitar is market ready

BY NICK VLAHOS

F or most of his 23 years, Michael Kuzma has played guitar. These days, he’s happy to leave the playing to someone else. Or something else, more accurately. Something he created. A 2020 Bradley University graduate, Kuzma designed a self-playing guitar system. It incorporates computer softwareandelectronics andmechanical pieces that attach to a conventional acoustic guitar. The instrument then becomes the Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar, which can play any song once it’s programmed. Kuzma is accepting orders for the guitars, which may be avai lable sometime in 2023.

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