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9 string guitar?
Got to thinking... how about 6 regular strings with 3 doubles on the high side.
Kind of like a 12 minus 3 set up.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 09:07:40
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I think it's too early to be thinking... 
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 10:14:02
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mike_mccue
Got to thinking... how about 6 regular strings with 3 doubles on the high side.
Kind of like a 12 minus 3 set up.
BC Rich already thought of it - but you have to leave 1 string off. 
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 10:15:43
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Thanks drew,
Mikey likey!
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 14:06:53
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VOX made a 9 string guitar like you describe in the 60's. E,B,G were doubled and the wound D,A,E were single. Cool guitar if you can find one.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 15:38:39
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Thanks for that info John.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 17:26:34
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Noel Gallagher once gave me a 9 string guitar.
"What's that big knob at the front?" I enquired.
"Well mate" he replied, "That's our kid Liam, he's the singer"
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 18:18:38
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Taylor makes an 8 string baritone guitar with 2 added middle strings tuned up an octave. I played on them and they have a unique sound. B E A D G B
Since I haven't figured out how to play 6 strings and standard tuning I passed on it.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 21:39:37
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Taylor makes an 8 string baritone guitar with 2 added middle strings tuned up an octave. I played on them and they have a unique sound. B E A D G B
Since I haven't figured out how to play 6 strings and standard tuning I passed on it.
I prefer a six-string baritone (versus a 7 which is just a normal guitar with an added low B), so this sounds interesting to me. I consider anything with octave strings to play about the same as it would without it (yes I know a 12-string can sound different depending on which direction you pick etc., but I'm talking about the overall width of all strings). That BC Rich also looks very tasty!
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 22:27:21
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mike_mccue
Got to thinking... how about 6 regular strings with 3 doubles on the high side.
Kind of like a 12 minus 3 set up.
I believe that this has already been done by John Mayall in the early 1960s.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/26 23:18:28
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Cool.
I wasn't thinking I invented it... I just finally got around to appreciating the idea.
I was watching a Jimi Hendrix video and it looked like he was playing a twelve string minus 3 strings and I thought... aha!
The video was blurry so I don't even know if what I thought I saw was really what I saw... but any ways... I got to thinking.
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Re: 9 string guitar?
2014/06/27 13:50:29
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mike_mccue
Got to thinking... how about 6 regular strings with 3 doubles on the high side.
Kind of like a 12 minus 3 set up.
You might want to check the custom guitars that Egberto Gismonti has made and played in his early days!
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