Another first in the world of resophonic guitars....a true 12 string.......
This is the second part of a crazy idea that Carroll & I had been brainstorming for several years.....and finally, this has become a reality.....for the past 8 years our journey has taken us through some amazing concepts to finished products.....
I don't want to say that this is the end of our journey as we've tackled all of our ideas up to the present.....at this point, I'll say that we've reached a rest stop on the highway of innovation as we have no other ideas with regard to themed resophonic guitars......but we'll be taking a detour from the Acoustic Thruway and onto the Electric Expressway......and I think that this electric endeavor will be.........shocking....
You played the double neck.....the twelve string was just finished about three days ago.......yes, they're quite wide to play on the lap.....Mark Roeder is making stands for the guitars......
On a technical note;-) A three legged stool will always balance on an uneven floor and a tri-cone takes advantage of this with the T bar configuration. Was there an attempt to somehow solve/overcome a 4 cone configuration or was it not really an issue? Nice guitar!
Yes, the bridge for the four cones had to be custom made.......originally we were going to weld two bridges together but then we decided to have it cast from a wood model that Carroll made.....while we were attempting to find a foundry to cast it (a couple of attempts fell through).....a friend & neighbor of Carroll's was at his shop and Carroll was showing him the guitar and explaining the process to him.....as it turned out, his neighbor (who had experience in metal) looked at the bridge model and told Carroll that he could make it.....so he machined one out of aluminum.....it sounded great(in the double neck quadcone) and so Carroll had him made a second one for the 12 string......
The string spacing is 3/8 at the bridge with a slight taper at the nut....so this is a wide neck......I'm really looking forward to receiving this one and sitting down with this tuning......I'm more "attuned" to G based tunings so this is easier (for me) to look at than other tunings.....
Right off the bat, I see (with a smattering of theory) on the open strings.....(without slants, combinations of open/closed strings, inversions, substitutions and partial chords).....
I sure would love to......I wouldn't be comfortable flying with it.....and other than that, I'd have to ship it to the hotel.....next day air to be safe.....if I could drive, I'd bring a few one off guitars to display.....we'll see as we get closer to the show......
That's almost weird enough to come out of the brain of Larry Pogreba. The last time I visited him in Montana there was an aluminum bodied, two-resonator cello up in his workshop.
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