Patent ID: 8476519

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a shirt; an image of a guitar incorporated onto a front surface of the shirt, the guitar image including a neck portion having a keypad providing an interface to an array of contact switches configured to be activated by a user while the user is wearing the shirt, the neck portion including an image of one or more pickups, the pickup images placed proximate a sensor configured to detect a strumming motion performed by the user, wherein the sensor comprises a capacitive touch sensor that is activated by direct touch by the user; a sound generation circuit coupled to the array of contact switches and configured to generate a respective tonal sound for each switch of the array of contact switches, and to generate a sound when at least one switch of the array of contact switches is activated by the user and when the sound generation circuit detects a strumming motion performed by the user touching the capacitive touch sensor; and a miniature amplifier coupled to the sound generation circuit, the miniature amplifier detachably coupled to the switch matrix through a cable and detachable coupling.