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Topic: One guitar Two scale lengths? |
Loni Specter
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West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 11:18 am |
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I originaly posted this in the wrong area and think it may get more opinions here.
Chas Smith's 'Guitarzilla' was brought to my attention, and it's a masterpiece of inovation, but not a practical workingman's guitar.
I'm wondering if a multi neck, console non-pedal guitar having two different scale lenghts is of any use to Forum members. Say one neck is a 6-string in 22.5" and another is an 6 string in 26" or any number of combinations. could be a 3- or 4 neck as well. What do you all think?
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
www.Lapdancerguitars.com
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Dan Sawyer
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Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 3:34 pm
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Interesting idea, Loni. Kind of the best of both worlds.
It seems like most players firmly prefer one scale or the other. If you like to line up your tunings so that a G chord is in the same place on both necks, your system wouldn't really work. Where can we see Chas Smith's guitar? |
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Loni Specter
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West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 4:00 pm
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Hi Dan, Just do a forum search on this site- guitarzilla and Chas will pop up with a pic somewhere.
This fellow Chas needs to be monitered closely and kept seperate from the other , shall we say, normal children. Thank god he's on our side! ;} |
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Travis Bernhardt
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 5:26 pm
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I think it's a good idea, especially for someone plays a lot of blues. You could use the short neck for the slanty stuff, and the long scale for the bluesy stuff.
-Travis[This message was edited by Travis Bernhardt on 27 November 2004 at 05:26 PM.] |
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Loni Specter
From:
West Hills, CA, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 6:17 pm
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| Hi Travis, That's what I was thinking. Perhaps the second or third neck might be an 8-string or? Also diferent pickup options. |
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Chris Scruggs
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2004 6:28 pm
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I've often thought it would be cool for pedal steel to have a standard ten string E9 neck with the normal pedal setup and 24.5" scale, and then to have an eight string C6 neck with no pedals and a 22.5". The C6 neck would have a string through bridge.
That way you can get the popular sound on E9, and since I'm just not a fan of the C6 neck with pedals, I could get the sound I want there, too.
CS |
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Jeff Strouse
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2004 9:27 am
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Let's pretend it's many years ago, and steel guitars are plentiful in music stores...
For newbies, not knowing the difference between scale lengths, I've always thought a floor model triple neck (let's say a Fender), with each of the offered scale lenghts would be a great idea (22.5, 24.5, and 26). This way you could sit down and actually experiment with all three lenghts at the same time to compare and contrast.
Then, when you decide which one you like best, you can tell the store owner, "I'll take a D-8 short scale." or, prehaps a quad long scale.
Here's a pic I posted a while back of a long scale quad made into a short scale with spacers.
Interesting concept...someone evidently didn't care much for the long scale. Perhaps leaving one neck long for certain effects would be fun (harmonics and stuff). |
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