Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An eight-string guitar is a guitar with eight strings, or one more than the Russian guitar's seven. Eight-string guitars are less common than six- and seven-string guitars, but they are used by a few classical, jazz, and metal guitarists. The eight-string guitar allows a wider tonal range, or non-standard tunings (such as major-thirds tuning ...
Background information; Also known as: Ralph Patt: Born 5 December 1929Kittanning, Pennsylvania: Died: 6 October 2010 (aged 80) Canby, Oregon: Genres: Jazz: Instrument(s) archtop hollow-body guitar (6-, 7-, and 8-strings), six- and eight-string classical guitar, 12-string guitar, 6-string bass guitar, eight-string mandolin, banjo, oud, lute, and bazuki
While the invention of the seven-string guitar has sometimes been attributed to Russian guitarist and composer Andrei Sychra, guitar historian Matanya Ophee has found evidence that seven-string classical guitars may have already existed in Europe in the late 18th century, when Sychra was just beginning his career. [1] A seven-string Russian guitar
Brahms guitar. The Brahms guitar, or cello-guitar, is an eight-string guitar with a conventional resonating body, but also an external, box-shaped resonator.Classical guitarist Paul Galbraith, in collaboration with luthier David Rubio, invented the instrument in 1994.
The Ibanez RG2228 is the world's first mass-produced eight string electric guitar. [1] It came out in March 2007 and was introduced in the Winter NAMM Show of that year. [ 2 ]
This is a list of artists who use eight-string guitars. Pages in category "Eight-string guitarists" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Playing multiple 8 string guitars, he is famous for developing various tapping techniques as well as furthering Tosin Abasi's "Thump" technique. John Mayer (born 1977) is an American musician. He generally plays Fender Stratocasters but has recently been sighted with an eight-string guitar.
In 1961 the first line of Hagström basses was available to the public, this eventually came to include the groundbreaking 8 string bass. Models of electric guitar included the Hagström 1, the H series (h II, h III, h II N), the Swede (Originally called The Hagström LP, or Les Paul, due to the instrument's resemblance to the popular Les Paul ...