View Full Version : Pat Metheny's double-neck and then some...
Elliot Luber
Jun-12-2014, 8:54am
Saw this posted on Facebook. Looks interesting. It was called a 42-string guitar. To me it looks like a guitar/mandola with perpendicular strings too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1wHZfZz9s
Elliot Luber
Jun-12-2014, 8:57am
Here's more on the guitar. http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om23350.html
Timbofood
Jun-12-2014, 9:00am
Sounds like "More is More"
dorenac
Jun-13-2014, 7:46am
Search Pat Metheny on youtube, "Are You Going With Me" live concert in Montreal and you can hear him start the tune with this guitar. Cool!!!
Jeff Mando
Jun-13-2014, 9:29am
I know the guy is famous and talented, but just not my cup of tea. Don't really get it. 30+ years ago, I broke up with a girlfriend, and she wrote me a nasty letter that I saved for years for some reason, don't know where it is at now, probably threw it away. One of the lines in the letter was, "when I asked you to go to the Pat Metheny concert with me, you looked like I had asked you to step before a firing squad." In a strange way, I'm proud of that and hope to have it chiseled on my tombstone someday.
Jeff Mando
Jun-13-2014, 9:30am
cool guitar, though!
Imagine tuning up... or changing strings... :(
Marty Jacobson
Jun-13-2014, 10:59am
Imagine tuning up... or changing strings... :(
I was thinking more along the lines of, "imagine building that thing"... I am sure it was a challenge even for a master of the craft like Linda.
Nick Pooch
Jun-13-2014, 2:18pm
you think he just uses a modified casket for a case?
Pasha Alden
Jun-14-2014, 2:03am
Well 42 strings - I think my tiny hand would flee in terror from holding down and fretting 42 strings. thanks for sharing
Pasha Alden
Jun-14-2014, 2:05am
"imagine tuning up or changing strings".
A real test for the ol' perfect pitch!
journeybear
Jun-14-2014, 2:51am
OK, but can you play the blues on this baby? Or something the girls can dance to? :confused:
Pasha Alden
Jun-14-2014, 3:11am
Wow I wonder too, though the jazz Methany plays is good.
mrmando
Jun-14-2014, 3:18am
Well, with that many strings, there's a better chance that one of them will be in tune.
journeybear
Jun-14-2014, 8:18am
Well ... one of them - yes. All of them - not so much. :(
Pasha Alden
Jun-14-2014, 2:09pm
That one of them will be in tune..."
Brilliant <smile>