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Darryl Hattenhauer · Post by **Darryl Hattenhauer** » 7 Dec 2007 8:07 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-7-String-Gu ... dZViewItem

I have no idea what this is, but somebody might be interested.

Stan Paxton · Post by **Stan Paxton** » 7 Dec 2007 8:24 am

Interesting, and more weird than a psg guitar thing. ...I wonder if the 3 extra tuning pegs are for drone strings?

...somebody needs to buy it and tells us all about it, maybe play something on You-tube with it.

...

Darryl Hattenhauer · Post by **Darryl Hattenhauer** » 7 Dec 2007 8:51 am

Good idea, Stan. Calling Mike Perlowin and John McGann: please buy this and record it, or at least tell us 'bout this thang.

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 8 Dec 2007 6:43 am

I have two of these things.....
The first one is a Suzuki, pretty similar to the one on the auction. It's acoustic. The sound is pretty weak and small. They are for school age children, and used for learning simple melodies. Mine came with a book in Japanese, but the numbering scheme is easy enough to understand.
The other one I have is bigger, it came from India, and is called a "Shahhi Baja". It has 3 pickups, two melody strings, two drone strings and I think 13 sympathetic strings. This one sounds great through a tube amp that's cranked up. Effects are cool with it also.
The only problem with this style of instruments is that wide interval jumps are quite difficult, as well as playing fast is pretty hard. Doing the two handed EVH thing impresses people, but only for a minute....

Jay

Stan Paxton · Post by **Stan Paxton** » 8 Dec 2007 7:08 am

Jay, that is pretty cool

I enjoy watching and listening to strange or "different" instruments being played, why don't you put some stuff up on YouTube and give us a link?

(or would it pollute the Steel Guitar aspect of the Forum too much?)

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 8 Dec 2007 7:26 am

I would Stan, but I am out in the middle of nowhere with just a 28.8K life line to the forum.

You Tube is just two words to me......

Jay

Darryl Hattenhauer · Post by **Darryl Hattenhauer** » 8 Dec 2007 11:52 am

Jay,

Thanks for the info. I was wondering what the heck this thing is.