Move your mouse over the ropes, and can rip this little instrument. You can also play notes on the keyboard. Click the record button located on the rectangular bottom of the second "g" of the word "Google" would be, and every note you play will be saved for posterity.
There's more. It creates a URL that can be sent to others, so you can hear your masterpiece. This is where it gets even more interesting: Send the address to someone, and when that person paste the URL into the address bar, you can play a duet together. Try it - play with me.
Or, you can play along with your recording, sound mixing as Les Paul did for the first time way back in the late 40's. Someone could really make some real music with it.
Click the drawing itself, and takes you to sites with Les Paul. Try here.
How appropriate! Les Paul, one of the first electric guitar and builder of one of the first solid body electric guitars was an innovative artist who created new forms of overlapping tracks in the recording studio. And here his memory is honored with another innovation, a website that shows a playable guitar and encouraged - you can record and dubbing - on his birthday.
Les Paul, after the legendary Gibson Les Paul is named, died in 2009 after living to the ripe old age of 94. Congratulations to Google for honoring their creative spirit by building the best ever Google doodle.