27 string guitar

I guess we'll now have a guitar race. My "Russian Guitar" has 28 strings. :icon_lol:.... Old school, my "American Guitar" has 30......

Man, I have a hard enough time with my six strings!
 
after watching this a few times, i could play this. I do play a guitar hours every day and have done so for almost 50 years.

the top is the bass and it is whole tones, "C" to "C" no sharps or flats and the botton setup is all 13 of the notes, like a harp.

as long as you play the normal 6 strings in the key of "C", it would be simple to play a song.
 
I never seen one until today and it is kinda a cool concept. I looked on ebay and wow $5000 and up for these, so it looks like china wont be making any of these babies anytime soon.

in 1968 I did see a cheep tiesco electric guitar with 13 extra strings below the main 6 but i think they called it a sitar.
 
There's an award-winning solo guitarist from this area named Brian Henke that had one of those harp guitars made for him... a 6 string neck, a 7 string baritone neck, and 15 harp strings... it sounds gorgeous. For me, it's enough to wrestle with my 6 strings (4 if I'm playing my bass)...

I got to noodle around with one of those Teisco electric sitars at a music store a few years ago... that was weird...
 
Speaking of excess strings, I have been eyeing this hybrid Vox doppleganger- a 9 stringer. Bit expensive though (for me anyways).

E/B/G are doubled up like a normal 12-string and the lower strings are tuned standard. So you get the growl you need from below and the chimey jingle up top.

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Phantom has the rights to build several from the old Vox line.
http://www.phantomguitars.com/teardrop.html
 
WOW! That's really cool! :applause::applause::applause:

Cheers,
Maarten

P.S. That's a great toy room Ron! I think I would lose myself in such a wonderful mini world. And then play "I've got no strings to hold me down. To make me fret or make me frown. How I love my liberty. I've got no strings on me." (wasn't that Pinnoccio's song?)
 
pilottj said:
thats really cool :) reminds me of the Animusic piece 'Resonant Chamber'
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I wonder if anyone has ever tried to build a real, working model of this type of equipment?

These multi-stringed instruments must be an stone cold b*tch to tune! :kilroy:
 
Here's a couple of Andy McKee playing Harp Guitar

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I've met Andy, great guy. VERY funny. Going to see him again this October.
 
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