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These are fully functional guitar works of art on display in Japan I believe.


Now, who amongst us is crazy enough to try this with acoustic 6 strings?

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Christopher C. Cordle
North Muskegon, MI

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Well Chirs, although she is not a member here that I know of, Linda Manzer's Pikasso guitar that she built for Pat Metheny comes close.

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

wow, a bit too much I would say!

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
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I have built a harp guitar before and they can be monsters...the biggest challenge in building is the structural support for the tension that the strings will place on the body of the guitar.

At one of the ASIA symposiums I talked to Linda Manzer about Pikasso and her other harp guitars and she said that she overbuilt the bracing to make sure the guitars would stay together and then just made sure that all of the other elements contributed as much as possible to the sound since the bracing was heavier.

Imagine the case for those things

12 neck guitar, think of the alternate tuning posibilities

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I cant see where you could get your arm in there to actually play them. It would take an octapus to play the things

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Ken H

Yeah,I'd like to see someone play these!
I wonder how many guys could play that one in the center?

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

I can just picture a dozen guys standing around one of those guitars all playing it at the same time..

Imagine the crazy guitar case that it would need.

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Blain

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[QUOTE=Don A] Linda Manzer's Pikasso guitar that she built for Pat Metheny comes close.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but you can't wear it like a Hula Hoop!

Can you imagine having to do 12 fretjobs and 12 setups for just one guitar after you built that thing? That would be maddening!   

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

 How many picks would you use?

I think the Japanese guitars and Linda's are perfect examples of the tenet that just because you can do something technically, it doesn't follow that you actually should do it.

Colin

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Well, in Manzer's case it was a customer request. Pat Metheny asked her for something different, and left it to her imagination. Apparently the customer was happy with the result, and you can't ask for better than that!

[QUOTE=Colin S] I think the Japanese guitars and Linda's are perfect
examples of the tenet that just because you can do something technically,
it doesn't follow that you actually should do it.

Colin[/QUOTE]

I have the same feelings about food. Just because you CAN eat something
doesn't mean you SHOULD!

Come on, worms, ants, tongue, intestines, yogurt, sheesh!

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