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This is a list of artists who use or have used seven-string guitars. Pages in category "Seven-string guitarists" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total.
He uses both 7 and now 8 string guitars. Bucky Pizzarelli (born 1926) is an American 7-string jazz-guitarist known for his work with Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli, as well as a string of albums from a solo career dating back to the 1950s. [23]
"The Guitar Player" by V.A. Tropinin (1823) The Russian guitar or gypsy guitar is a seven-string acoustic guitar tuned to the open G tuning (DGBDGBD), [5] which arrived or was developed early in the 19th century in Russia, possibly as a development of the cittern, the kobza and the torban.
His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms. Carpenter began his musical career with Deftones playing the traditional six-string guitar. After becoming influenced by such bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah, he began playing a seven-string guitar in the ...
Charlie Hunter (born May 23, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer, producer and bandleader. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter plays custom-made seven- and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays bass lines, chords, and melodies.
His main guitar was a 7-string RG model. During the recording of Endgame, he started using 6-string Ibanez S series guitars, which are painted with artwork from various Megadeth albums. This is because Dave Mustaine didn't want Broderick to use his 7-strings in the studio. He has since switched to Jackson Guitars.
Early in 2007, Schecter guitars brought out the Jeff Loomis Signature Schecter 7-string, based on the C-7 Hellraiser model. It features the EMG 707 active pickups, ash body in 'vampyre red satin' and three piece maple neck with maple fretboard and Sperzel locking tuners. At NAMM 08 a new signature model was released.
Thordendal also owns a 7-string acoustic guitar, also made by Ibanez. For a time, he used Nevborn guitars, which made Meshuggah their first 8-string guitars. However, these guitars suffered from intonation problems, leading Thordendal to abandon the company and switch exclusively to Ibanez guitars.