How many strings?!!!!

[vernon]

How do you go about playing this without help from a friend or two's hands?

Anyone with a spare £950 can get it from Ebay.

 

[stuee147]

them base strings are a bit on the large side they look like there about 10mm dia how would you even strum strings so big lol

hold on iv just noticed arnt the base strings meant to be at the bottom ????

 

[raleighnut]

Its played flat on your lap with a steel bar hence the name Lap-steel guitar as opposed to the ones on a stand which often have 2 sets of strings.
Or maybe the workmate comes with it

 

[machew]

Looks like a copy of a Chapman Stick
http://www.8stringguitar.org/for-sale/8-string-chapman-stick-warr-guitar-copy/6682/

 

[vernon]

Its played flat on your lap with a steel bar hence the name Lap-steel guitar as opposed to the ones on a stand which often have 2 sets of strings.
Or maybe the workmate comes with it

So explain the presence of a the guitar strap...

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3130136, member: 259"]It looks more like something you'd strap a Suffolf Punch into before a day out ploughing.[/QUOTE]

I never said it was fit for purpose.....

 

[Beebo]

what you need is the Bill Bailey 6 necked guitar

 

[Cyclopathic]

Er, 15 Vernon. There are 15 strings.

 

[MontyVeda]

So explain the presence of a the guitar strap...

...so it doesn't slide off of your lap.

 

[vernon]

Its played flat on your lap with a steel bar hence the name Lap-steel guitar as opposed to the ones on a stand which often have 2 sets of strings.
Or maybe the workmate comes with it

So explain the presence of a the guitar strap...

Er, 15 Vernon. There are 15 strings.

Er , played conventionally, Cyclopathic. It's played conventionally.

 

[Cyclopathic]

I can't see it catching on some how. I still think 7 strings on a guitar is blasphemous. This is just utter devilment and perpetrators will probably be punished in many and wicked ways and rightly so.
I'm going now to play my conventionally tuned 6 string acoustic in the most puritanical way I can. Please don't upset me with these images again.

 

[subaqua]

6 is just an arbitary number any way. why not 5 .

and if guitars are like bikes then surely the more strings the better

 

[raleighnut]

6 is just an arbitary number any way. why not 5 .

and if guitars are like bikes then surely the more strings the better

Keith Richards often plays an open tuned 5 string its how he gets some unique sounds/tone on many Stones songs, there may be other reasons as well

 

[vernon]

I can't see it catching on some how. I still think 7 strings on a guitar is blasphemous. This is just utter devilment and perpetrators will probably be punished in many and wicked ways and rightly so.
I'm going now to play my conventionally tuned 6 string acoustic in the most puritanical way I can. Please don't upset me with these images again.

Some guitarists are best matched with stringless guitars.....

 

[marknotgeorge]

Those big strings look as if they can only be heard by elephants.