I just read about a 4-necked steelguitar mounted on a rotating block of wood in a Hank Williams biography. Kind of unwieldy I would imagine but the cool factor is off the charts. Just turn the crank and there's a new tuning front and center.
Have any of you ever seen anything like this?
One of Hank’s surrogate fathers was Pappy Neal McCormick, a Creek Indian who led a band variously called the Barn Dance Troubadours or the Hawaiian Troubadours. McCormick was based 150 miles south of Montgomery, in and around Pensacola in the Florida panhandle. He played steelguitar; in fact, he had invented a four-head steelguitar. Four guitars in different tunings were mounted on a railroad tie that turned on a barbecue spit.
Yeah, there used to be one in the Country Music Hall of Fame or some other institution in Nashville several years ago. Don't know if it's still there. Don't remember anything about it or who it belonged to. Been several years.
I saw one at the Hank Williams boyhood home museum in Georgiana AL, probably the same one referred to in the book... very unique! I know I took a picture of it but I'm unable to find it
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