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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

O.K., James.  Need to pick your brain.  Have you seen that two-necked 
stringed instrument that Sting plays?  Has one short neck, one long neck and 
looks like more than six strings to a neck.

Lynda
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> >O.K., James.  Need to pick your brain.  Have you seen that two-necked
> stringed instrument that Sting plays?  Has one short neck, one long neck and
> looks like more than six strings to a neck.
>

Haven't seen it.  Forward URL to a picture if you can.

Sting is a bassist and plays six string guitar as well, but by far better
known as a bassist.  There are a number of double neck guitars with a bass
neck and regular full sized guitar neck.  But then again, these do not have
but four and six strings per neck respectively.

There are also a number of 6/12 double neck guitars with one neck having
six strings and the other in double courses of the usual 12 string guitar.

But what you describe sounds like the "Picasso Guitar".  It has 42 strings
with the courses crossing each other.  The idea is like that of a sitar,
hurdy-gurdy, and hardanger fiddle where some of the strings sound from
sympathetic vibration.  I have never seen it associated with Sting, but who 
knows?
It's most famous proponent is the jazz guitarist  Pat Metheny.

Here is a picture of the Picasso Guitar

http://i00.rnhh.de/eu/shared-images/rhaps/f/f/3/7/fdfe3572af045676fcc36d89fb
3f9d53_580x386.jpg
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