Overkill 9000 Mandolin Madness

[Walt Kuhlman]

I don't know if this has been posted before but it was posted on my facebook page today and I couldn't help but share the link here...talk about excess in strings...I'm wondering who plays it??

http://pictureisunrelated.com/2010/08/23/wtf-photos-videos-overkill-9000-mandolin-madness/

[MikeEdgerton]

Pat Methany plays it. It was built by Linda Manzer.

[Ed Goist]

And a good set-up on it is just $2,365.78!

[Austin Koerner]

This is what Pat's been up to lately. And yes, those instruments do play themselves.

http://echoesblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/metheny-orchestrion022.jpg

[Bertram Henze]

The one looks like something Zaphod Beeblebrox would play, the other like spooky Hardrock Cafe.

[Tom Wright]

I know it's easier to make a profit as a solo act, but Pat goes a bit far on this project.

[Andy Miller]

Metheny has been doing things a little overboard in one way or another for a long time. I love the fact that he's always coming up with some new way to be creative.

[Austin Koerner]

He doesn't have to pay musicians, but it's about the same cost to move the instruments and repair them. I think it's great. I'm a big Metheny fan.

[resophil]

Madness it may be, depending on your point of view, but mandolin it is not!

Linda Manzer named it Pikasso. 42 strings. 6 string neck, two 12 string necks (neither with frets), wedge shaped body (thinner at the top for ease of holding) and 12 sympathetic strings running across the bass bout. Nary a bit of mandolin to be seen anywhere... Where did that idea come from?

More than you wanted to know:

http://www.manzer.com/guitars/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikasso_guitar

[Bertram Henze]

Maybe someone should tell him that they have invented loop devices and multitrack recording to facilitate players with only two hands. :grin:

Funny way of picking one part of the instrument and fretting another - makes my eyes twist...
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[Ivan Kelsall]

Well,i suppose if anybody had to do it,maybe there's no one better than Pat Metheney. He's a great musician by any standard,but this is a bit OTT even for me & i have many of his recordings. I did see pics.of the multi-instrument a long while back in Guitarist magazine.The physical attributes are more astonishing than it's tonal ones i'm afraid. PM on a good Guitar is good enough for me every time,
Ivan