When I was think­ing about mak­ing recital posters for my mul­ti­ple recitals last year, I thought a few times about try­ing to cre­ate a bas­soon ver­sion of Activision’s Gui­tar Hero (a guilty plea­sure I engage in from time to time). I got as far as down­load­ing a hi-res ver­sion of the game’s logo and a bunch of screen shots, but I never got around to doing any­thing with them, and I sort of for­got about the idea.

Then tonight, I hap­pened across this:

Some­one (I don’t know who) has had the same idea, and done a very good job real­iz­ing it. The artist neatly side­stepped one pho­to­shop­ping issue that kept me from work­ing on the idea: by plac­ing music stands in front of the play­ers, s/he elim­i­nated the need to erase the bod­ies of the gui­tars, which are much wider than a bas­soon. The necks of the gui­tars don’t pose the same prob­lem, as the bas­soons’ bells eas­ily cover them. The image is very well done all around; I espe­cially like the Wii-style bas­soon controller.

[via Dead Robot]