While the unit is installed on acoustic guitars for the time being, the company says that similar tech can be used on other acoustic instruments and eventually to other surfaces -- this is just the current manifestation.

ENGADGET: Moog's LEV-96 sensoriactuator prototype wields touch control of 96 simultaneous harmonics, we go eyes-on (video)

It hooks up hundreds of computers around the world to get them talking to one another at the same time to calculate acoustic and electromagnetic effects on the fuselages of fighter planes when they are in steep angles of attack.

FORBES: Sharing Power

It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.

NPR: Eric Clapton Looks Back at His Blues Roots

That means that all content can be brought in, from some kid playing acoustic originals in her bedroom to long time music streaming holdouts like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

ENGADGET: Whyd mines YouTube, Soundcloud and others for songs Spotify can't deliver (hands-on)

At the time of the tour, Dylan had already recorded an album, half electric and half acoustic, called Bringing It All Back Home, and had released a rock and roll single called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" which pointed his work in a whole new direction.

NPR: Dylan, the Red Dog and the Real Summer of Love