REPORT: Two Lebanese men launch “the ultimate guitarist tool” from China

Roadie is a tool and a smartphone application that tunes the musician’s guitar quickly and accurately, informs him of the quality of the strings and recommends restringing as soon as the tone quality deteriorates.

All the features that the guitarist needs are incorporated in Roadie that will help in learning, playing, and composing your own music.

Roadie Tuner (the tool) pairs with a free app on the smartphone, iPod or tablet through Bluetooth 4.0 smart.

All the audio processing happens on the smartphone which sends tuning commands to Roadie. With Roadie, tuning the musical instrument becomes easier than ever, less error prone, and far more accurate than manual tuning.

The musical device and application were invented by Lebanese nationals Bassam Jalgha and Hassane Slaibi who met through a music band in college, and were launched from China.

Bassam learned to play the Oud, a 12 string instrument, ever since he was a kid, but struggled to tune it at first and found himself practicing on an un-tuned instrument, leading him to decide to invent a technological solution to this problem.

In 2009, Bassam participated in “Stars of Science” Season 1, a Pan-Arab reality show innovation contest. His project “Dozan”, was a precursor of Roadie. During the three-month long competition, he was able to build the device and pass all the stages from engineering to product design, business and marketing. Finally, Bassam won first prize and this seeded Roadie's development.

In 2012, Hassane and Bassam decided to start Band Industries and develop Roadie Tuner.