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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 158.1 | Who's Laughing? | VIKING::BUSENBARK | | Wed Feb 04 1987 19:01 | 12 |
| Find a music store who deals with an instrument distributor by the
name of St Louis Music Company,who handles Ampeg,crate and Alvarez-Yari
guitars. Most of them do but the ma and pop type shop might be your best
bet,but it may cost you alot more.
I know 7 years ago Alvarez-Yari was making a double neck 6 and
12 string acoustic and showed it in there catalog for 1979-80.
You did say acoustic ? Wonder what they do for sympathetic
vibrations?!
Good Luck!
Rick
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| 158.2 | seen one but forgot who made it... | OCKER::STRAUSS | 1- Open Mouth, 2- Insert Foot | Thu Feb 05 1987 09:06 | 7 |
| I saw Gordon Giltrap play a double neck 6/12 string acoustic about
9 or 10 years ago - sorry I can't remember who made it. It was
almost certainly a custom job, my a British guitar maker (luthier?)
and probably quite expensive.
But there is/was such a beast and it sounded good.
fwiw
leon
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| 158.3 | | GENRAL::ALBERTUS | | Thu Feb 05 1987 12:13 | 6 |
| Re: .1 ... that was one reason (the harmonic resonance) why there's
not supposed to be any. Heard just last night a body had a
triple-neck; six, twelve and mandolin. Waiting for a picture of
that ... seeing is believing.
AA
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| 158.4 | | RHETT::MCABEE | Diddly diddly | Fri Mar 06 1987 12:40 | 7 |
| Hmmm. It wouldn't take much creativity to muffle the strings of the
unused neck.
re: -.1 It would take more than seeing. I'd have to try it.
Bob
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| 158.5 | | FANTUM::DIGGINS | | Tue Mar 10 1987 15:21 | 8 |
|
Jimmy Page used a triple neck acoustic, 6,12 and mando.
I believe there was a poster out years ago with him playing
it.
Steve
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| 158.6 | Don't think it was Page | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Dave | Tue Mar 10 1987 17:00 | 8 |
| I have this recollection that it was actually John Paul Jones who
had the triple neck.
The guitarist from Cheap Trick has something like a 7 neck guitar
(all identical six string necks). It's purely a novelty, it is
certainly not practical to play such a thing (it weighs a ton).
db
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| 158.7 | Is that for real? | FROST::SIMON | Mister Diddy Wah Diddy? | Tue Mar 10 1987 18:22 | 7 |
|
Actually, if I remember correctly, Rick Neilson's (Cheap Trick)
Mega-neck guitar only had a few real functioning necks. The
rest were just for show. Don't remember how many were real.
-gary
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| 158.8 | | RICKS::CALCAGNI | | Tue Mar 10 1987 20:56 | 6 |
| got a picture of it right here in an old Guitar Player. It was
made for Rick by Hamer and has 5 necks, all of them real. One twelve
string neck, two six string necks, one six string neck with whammy,
and one six string fretless.
/rick
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| 158.9 | HEAVY!!!!! | FANTUM::DIGGINS | | Wed Mar 11 1987 14:16 | 6 |
|
Yeah but you need 10 arms of various lengths to play it,and
a counter balance, gyro-controlled just to hold it!! 8*)
Steve
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| 158.10 | 10 ARMS? | DV780::MALKOSKI | | Wed Jun 10 1987 14:16 | 7 |
| There have been acoustic guitars with two necks for a long time
be I think that Alvarez-Yari is the only one producing such a beast
currently. Personally, I thinmk that there are too many compromises
to be made in the construction to make an instrument that would
be satisfying for an extended period of time. I guess that I would
rather have two (or more) guitars.
Paul
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