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CSIRO has devised a T-shirt that allows people "without significant musical or computing skills" to play guitar without having to use an instrument. Though this development is bad news for hard-pressed luthiers, it provides welcome exercise for the idle and obviates the need for such hard-earned antediluvian skills as learning three chords, overcoming fret rattle and developing the strength and co-ordination to dispatch a 26-inch colour television set from a great height into a swimming pool.