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Topic: Interesting steel/nylon double neck straight guitar! |
Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 11 Oct 2019 2:24 am |
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That's so crazy it just might work.
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2019 5:54 am
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It was mainly designed just for doing turnarounds. 
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2019 7:49 am
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Just what I've always wanted! 
Erv |
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 11 Oct 2019 8:27 am
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These guys play it very well
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 11 Oct 2019 12:44 pm
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A couple of problems here:
- no sound hole(s).
- the construction of a nylon and a steel strung guitar are very different. If you string up one with the other you either have a low-volume and lifeless guitar (nylon on a steel) or a guitar the collapses on itself once you tune it up (steel on a nylon).
If this actually exists and is not just an image, I'd bet it sounds like crap. |
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Bill Cunningham
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Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 13 Oct 2019 5:44 am
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Coincidentally, Friday I worked a show opening for Larry Gatlin. His was acoustic electric and worked very well. He said he got the idea from finger picker Thom Bresh.
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James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Posted 14 Oct 2019 8:17 am
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| Is it purely meant to be used with pickups? how does it sound, acoustically? |
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Jim Fogle
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North Carolina, Winston-Salem, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2019 6:00 pm
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The $6,600 Euro price of the German made Stoll Guitar equals about $7,281 US. That's a lot of coin for an instrument.
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 14 Oct 2019 8:02 pm
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The Stoll and Larry Gatlin's (brand unknown) guitar have the sound holes in the sides. Having the sound hole aimed at your face probably sounds pretty good to the player. I used to pull the preamp module out of an Ibenez jumbo acoustic I had so the sound came out of the side. Great for living room playing by myself. I'm not sure how it affected the front projection though.
Thom Bresh's Duallette has more conventional sound holes in the front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4lK_6puuc
Pretty darn cool, I think. Seems like you would have to disconnect the strap between the necks to flip it over though. Maybe better suited for playing sitting down. |
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 17 Oct 2019 9:00 am
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I don’t understand why you would build it with the necks angled downward rather than upward. Looks like there is plenty of room to fit your fretting hand between the necks. Maybe there is a structural reason, but it seems like if you could overcome the complexities of bracing one side of the same body for nylon strings and the other for steel, setting the necks for more ergonomic playing technique would be a snap.
Interesting concept. Though probably not one for the masses at that price. |
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