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Introducing...The Eight String Guitar from Guitar Designers This surprising, original and revolutionary instrument is not like a regular guitar, it's more like an effect. You don't play it by fretting notes (unless you really want to). You play harmonics. With an eight string guitar, each string is tuned to a note in a scale. Take a regular diatonic scale (major or minor) and tune each string to one of the notes. The guitarist plays the eight string guitar by playing harmonics at the twelfth, seventh or fifth frets (or anywhere else on the string that a harmonic will sound). A melody can be played, constructed from notes in the scale, by picking the right strings. The guitar (affectionately named "The Flying V8") has eight strings because many musical scales have eight notes, not six. Call it musical closure. The ethereal
music produced sounds like this…
The strings can also be tuned to the notes in an arpeggio, producing curiously fast runs and remarkable harmonics. The design of the bridge and tail stop, the design of the nut, the string gauge selection, the guitar's tuning and the placement of the tuning machines are new design elements, never before seen on any electric guitar. (The prototype guitar pictured here is a modified Epiphone. Guitar Designers has no affiliation whatsoever with the makers of the Epiphone guitar - we just needed to modify something to make the prototype of the eight string guitar and this was the first guitar we grabbed.) Mail us on guitardesigners@hotmail.com for trade enquiries. Guitar Designers licenses guitar designs and design innovations. Watch this site for new and future guitar designs. All rights
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