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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] ? For James
  • Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:10:40 -0700

Was watching PBS and he was on there playing this peculiar looking thing. What was different than the usual 6/12 is that the body wasn't as wide and the fret board was short. Plus, the upside (what would normally be the 12 string on a 6/12), there was no neck. The strings ran from the body, up the fret board and then there was nothing till you got to the tuning keys. All the strings were really close together, no distinct separation like on the 6/12. The tuning keys of the short strings lay directly only the long strings.

If you get PBS, it is the show at the Boston Pops with Chris whatshisname that plays trumpet.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
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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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