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Definitely a ugly tool and a instrument that is a broken record.

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Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:45 pm Definitely a ugly tool and a instrument that is a broken record.

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What are we supposed to be seeing at this link?

^ if you lived in Chicago you might get it.
wasn't your old handle boombats or somthing?

Garth wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:43 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:22 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:12 am I think it's so funny that Abasi does a telecaster:

This looks massively cool.

Does it? It's got some uncanny valley thing going for me where I'm kinda somewhere between "hm yeah ok" and completely revulsed.
It's almost exactly a perfect cross of a Tele and an Ovation Deacon/Breadwinner.

I own a Breadwinner so you definitely nailed why I think it's cool!

bishopdante wrote: Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:00 pm

Geiginni wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:13 pm

penningtron wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:33 pm

Yep. 95% of this music is "junt junt junt" on a low fuckin' A string with metal zone distortion yet they have 9 strings and fanned frets..

Exactly. I never see some crazy jazz guy or classical guitarist using one of these monstrosities - it's always some chug-a metal dude.

8 string guitar isn't particularly new in the classical guitar world (1994) :



In fact it's closer to the much older 8-course lute.



Fanned frets first appeared on the 16th-century Orpharion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion, a variant of the cittern, tuned like a lute.



The idea was reintroduced by Novax instruments, who held a (fairly dubious) patent on the system for quite a few years, and made semi-famous by Charlie Hunter, a jazz player.

I like that 8-string "Brahms" guitar. It would be useful for things like Bach's lute works that rely upon the open tuned bass strings (like BWV.998). Prior to the 19th century, guitars weren't particularly standardized, though the 6-string spanish guitar evolved to be the standard format for guitars over the past 200+ years.

Lutes are a whole different beast, as far as fretted plucked instruments go, as are theorbos, citterns, and the extended family of things tuned in fifths.

Not of fan of whatever Charlie Hunter was doing there. He had a couple records I liked from the early 90s, but I haven't paid attention to him since then, 8-string guitars or not.

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Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:45 pm

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This kind of sports guitar shit would be a lot more entertaining if the guitarists were pitted against each other in a dog agility competition. Like a little old person trots beside Steve Vai holding his leash while he goes from the 6 string station to the 7 string to the 12 string to the bass etc.

Hey if anyone's qualified to wield a guitar like that it's either Vai or Batio. Fuggin Eyetalians

Chud Fusk wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:41 pm

Mickey242 wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:45 pm Definitely a ugly tool and a instrument that is a broken record.

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What are we supposed to be seeing at this link?

It's just a link to Jim DeRogatis' WBEZ profile. I'm not exactly a fan, but that's pretty cold. Played with his band a couple times, he was nice enough.

I guess Mickey's complaint is that Jim is not a conventionally handsome man.

biscuitdough wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:54 pm This kind of sports guitar shit would be a lot more entertaining if the guitarists were pitted against each other in a dog agility competition. Like a little old person trots beside Steve Vai holding his leash while he goes from the 6 string station to the 7 string to the 12 string to the bass etc.

I like your thinking.