He's added several strings to create a seven-string instrument, and has created the first all-ngoni group, featuring four different-sized instruments, including a bass ngoni, also his invention.
In the end, he commissioned a group of researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany to design an instrument which produces light with a wavelength of 1, 300 nanometres and has the ability to fire 440, 000 pulses a second.