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	Eight string guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An eight string guitar is, as the name implies, a guitar with eight strings.
		Probably originating from Russia along with the seven string guitar variant in the 19th century, the eight string guitar has recently begun to gain popularity, notably among jazz artists such as Charlie Hunter and metal artists such as Meshuggah.
		The main manufacturing company of 8 string guitars is Novax Guitars established by Ralph Novak.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eight_string_guitar (138 words)

	Guitar Encyclopedia, Definition, History, Biography @ ALIENARTIFACTS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The main purpose of the bridge on an acoustic guitar is the transfer the vibration from the strings to the soundboard, which vibrates the air inside of the guitar, thereby amplifying the sound produced by the strings.
		Guitars usually have six strings, although there are variations on this, the most common being a twelve-string guitar; the seven string guitar; the ukulele, which has four strings; and the bass guitar, which usually has four strings but also exists in five, six, eight, and twelve-string versions.
		Archtop guitars were immediately adopted upon their release by both jazz and country musicians and have remained particularly popular in jazz music, usually using thicker strings (higher guaged round wound and flat wound) than acoustic guitars.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Guitar (5655 words)

	Musica Viva: The Encyclopedia of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Eagles was one of the most important bands to popularise the "West Coast style" amalgation of country, pop and rock....
		A tenor guitar (or rather a plectrum guitar) with a 640 mm scale similar to a regular six-tring guitar.The instrument was invented and named after Eddie Freeman....
		A flute family where the sound is produced by blowing against the edge of the soundhole itself (as opposed to duct flutes)....
	www.musicaviva.com /encyclopedia/alpha.tpl?phrase=E (238 words)

	Guitar Designers - Licensing guitar designs and design innovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With an eight string guitar, each string is tuned to a note in a scale.
		The guitarist plays the eight string guitar by playing harmonics at the twelfth, seventh or fifth frets (or anywhere else on the string that a harmonic will sound).
		The design of the bridge and tail stop, the design of the nut, the string gauge selection, the guitar's tuning and the placement of the tuning machines are new design elements, never before seen on any electric guitar.
	www.guitardesigners.com (328 words)

	Classical Guitar Illustrated History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To solve these problems, the four-string guitar was enlarged and given six double strings, turned in the same manner as the present six-string guitar with the exception of the third string, turned a half tone lower.
		Since the tuning of the four-string guitar was the same as that used on the first four strings of the modern guitar, the low A string was the later addition.
		Although the guitar was less popular in Spain than in Italy and was not as popular as the vihuela was in the previous century, some important works were established and a number of fine guitarists became known in that country.
	www.classicalguitarmidi.com /history/guitar_history.html (10719 words)

	The Irish cittern
		Generally "octave mandolin is simply a different name for the tenor mandola with a relatively short neck and eight strings tuned in fifths.
		But the names cittern and bouzouki are both used for a bewildering variety of eight- and ten-stringed (and occasionally 12-stringed) instruments tuned in different ways and (usually) with a longer neck than the octave mandolin.
		There are tenor guitars with eight strings and there are citterns and tenor mandolas with guitar-shaped body.
	www.mandolin-player.com /instruments/irish-cittern (811 words)

	☼ Learn to Play Guitar: how to play a 12 string guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When Kate Schutt was a student at Wilmington's Tower Hill School playing guitar with local bands, groove-jazz hero Charlie Hunter had not yet invented the eight-string guitar that lets a musician play melody on the top strings and rhythm on bass strings at the bottom.
		The twelve string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six string guitar.
		Many performers who play the 12 string guitar use an ordinary six string guitar as their primary instrument, switching to the 12 string guitar for certain songs that seem to...
	www.learn-to-play-guitar.info /learn/how-to-play-a-12-string-guitar (474 words)

	All about the 8 string guitar. Eight string electric guitars.
		But note that eight string electric guitars are extremely unusual.
		Some of the eight string electric guitars that I've come across include the ESP Kirk Hammett LTD Spider Signature Electric Guitar, ESP EX351 Electric Guitar, ESP EX100 Electric Guitar, and ESP V350 Electric Guitar.
		But the least common of the lot is the 8 string electric guitar.
	www.electric-guitars-guide.com /8-string-guitar.html (194 words)

	Harp Guitar Patents
		Knutsen "one-arm guitar" or "1896 Patent-style harp guitar"
		Knutsen "one-arm harp-guitar" or "1898 Patent-style harp guitar"
		As the strings are probably tuned to pitches of the standard strings, this is probably more of a sympathetic string guitar.
	www.harpguitars.net /history/patents.htm (4279 words)

	The Major 3rd Tuning
		At first I used a 6 string guitar but then went to 7 string and finally to 8 string guitars.
		Adding strings to the guitar using the major third tuning becomes similar to adding notes to a piano keyboard.
		Much of the classical guitar literature becomes difficult or impossible to play because of frequent use of open D and A strings.
	www.ralphpatt.com /Tune.html (686 words)

	CharlieHunter.com
		This is the Novax guitar Charlie used to record Ready, Set, Shango, Natty Dread, Return of the Candyman, and Duo.
		It has a Paduak body with with flamed maple cap and fl veneer accent stripe, flamed maple head veneer, maple neck and binding with ebony fret board.
		Inlay consists of Mother of Pearl Novax diamond pattern and greenheart abalone in Novax stripe pattern.
	www.charliehunter.com /gear/current.html (63 words)

	Pro Arte GuitarTrio
		The concept of the guitar trio has been around for quite some time, but the Pro Arte Guitar Trio differ in not using merely three standard guitars but basing their ensemble around a regular formation of requinto (a small guitar tuned a forth higher), standard and eight string guitars.
		The unique combination of a requinto (higher pitched guitar), standard and eight string guitars brings an attractive new sonority to the guitar trio.
		He is the founder and director of the Dillington Guitar Summer School and Festival, an event dedicated to the guitar in ensemble.
	www.classical-audio.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /proarte.htm (595 words)

	The Purdue Exponent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The eight string "Brahm’s guitar," as it is called, consists of two extra strings — one above the high E string and one below the low E string.
		The arrangement leaves the traditional six strings untouched and the instrument as a whole balanced.
		Galbraith holds his guitar as if it were a cello and it rests on a wooden acoustic box, producing natural amplification.
	www.purdueexponent.org /2001/11/06/features/i4.html (292 words)

	Acoustic Guitar Homegrown Winner No. 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He plays bass lines and regular guitar parts simultaneously, making good use of the extended range of his eight-string flattop, which was custom-built by Jeff Traugott.
		Being able to play Charlie’s [eight-string] guitar convinced me that it was playable, and I also heard some of Lenny Breau’s stuff, where he’s using the high A on his seven-string." Although West still relies on a variety of tunings, his most common is now standard with added high and low A strings.
		Dean Magraw was flown in for the session, which had to be completed in three days, and the lack of preparation combined with an inability to rely on visual cues made it difficult to record the album live.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag98/Homegrown98.shtml (1197 words)

	Trinity Guitars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The trim for the sides of the binding has been glued to the binding as is bent with the binding.
		The same form is used for the bending of the guitar sides.
		On a Trinity Guitar there is a pronounced arch in the back of the guitar.
	www.trinityguitars.com /CP1.htm (1225 words)

	WHAT'S HOT WITH JAZZ GUITAR (Guitar News Weekly #178, January 28, 2002 - (c) GuitarSite.com)
		After much research as to neck scale and intonation issues, Conti commissioned a Los Angeles Luthier to build his first Eight String Guitar, which was completed in March of 1993.
		With the exception of a brief period of lessons from Philly guitar virtuoso, Joe Sgro, Conti is a self taught musician.
		Ned Steinberger, the inventor of headless guitars and basses, will once again be directly involved in the design of Steinberger-brand instruments, thanks to a new 5-year consulting agreement with Gibson Musical Instruments.
	www.guitarsite.com /newsletters/020128/4.shtml?nl178 (701 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Seven string that he utilized up to that point in time is also pictured on the right.
		With the exception of the beautiful white finish, this Eight String is identical to the fl instrument that Conti uses.
		Notice the fl eight string hanging on the wall in the upper left hand corner of the picture.
	www.robertconti.com /photogal/90s (593 words)

	Ten -String Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fold just enough material to make the strings have little or no tone in a percussive response Play a phrase or two of the music that you are practicing with the cloth under the strings.
		Another benefit for this technique is that by taking away the tones, the rhythmic articulation becomes revealed giving your ear a sense of the piece from a different perspective.
		of a standard four string bass and six or seven string guitar on one neck.
	www.tenstringguitar.com /pages/2 (1563 words)

	DigitalMetal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Meshuggah's as-yet-untitled album will be the first metal record to feature an eight-string guitar, exclusively made for Meshuggah.
		"The guitar is specially made by a guy who lives deep down in the Swedish woods, and it sounds fantastic," said guitarist Marten Hagstrom to Blabbermouth.net.
		On the demo, Fredrik [Thordenthal, guitars] and I use a prototype, but for the album recording, [we will use a more developed model].
	www.digitalmetal.com /news.asp?cid=2250 (212 words)

	Hunting For Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And when you are a highly skilled hunter by namesake as well, you hunt for new grooves with an instrument that’s an extension of your creative energy, which in Charlie Hunter’s case is an eight string guitar, a unique weapon indeed, as a resting bed for three bass strings and five guitar strings.
		Charlie practiced and practiced and continued exploring those same old half dozen strings until the late 80s when his destined path on the way to the great eight took a step forward as he began playing a seven-string guitar, which had two bass strings, five guitar strings and two pickups.
		Their intent is not to stuff him but, for now, to position him on the mantel with a nod to the idea that one day he may deserve placement on the hallowed wall of nature’s finest.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1682 (1165 words)

	Jazz man with strings attached Charlie Hunter charts new territory on his eight-string guitar.
		The 33-year-old Hunter is the designer and sole practitioner of an eight-string guitar-bass hybrid (three bass strings over five guitar strings) that enables him to play both bass and guitar lines simultaneously.
		This Is Not a Guitar It's natural to wonder whether holding down a constant bass line inhibits Hunter's guitar technique, but he doesn't really look at that as a problem.
		The three bass strings go through their own pickup to Hunter's Eden bass amp; the guitar goes through a separate pickup to a Victoria Twin amp.
	onstagemag.com /ar/performance_jazz_man_strings (3418 words)

	blink182.ca - Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Discover the keys to unlock the true potential of your guitar playing in 90 days or less- guaranteed.
		Software, Drums, Guitars, Videos and everything else students can use to start out in music and save your money from the high cost of retail.
		Linda Dreyer, who brought along a guitar and a harmonica to accompany the choir.
	www.blink182.ca /Guitar/all/search (204 words)

	Paul Galbraith Recording Reviews
		British guitarist Paul Galbraith has made something of a sensation in the guitar world by creating (with luthier David Rubio) an eight-string guitar on which he can play all six of Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas without pausing to retune.
		his enlarged guitar echoes the wide range of the Baroque lute (for which Bach himself transcribed some of this music) while affording a plush tone.
		There are few, if any, limits to what he can do with his guitar, and to the sensitivity with which he does it.
	www.paul-galbraith.com /reviews.html (995 words)

	Guitar Musician News :: Music Industry News :: CD reviews: Charlie Hunter Trio; 'Friends Seen and Unseen'
		Hunter and Ellis, in particular, seem a match made in musical heaven, as half of the songs on "Friends Seen and Unseen" are either Ellis compositions or collaborations with Hunter.
		The spare sound allows Hunter's unusual style on his unusual instrument -- eight-string guitar -- to shine; his polyrhythmic strumming leaves listeners swearing that a bassist or perhaps overdubs must be in the mix.
		Much of this is delivered in an easygoing, J.J. Cale-like style, with Watkins singing in a rich, slightly gruff voice that's capable of funny little skips and dips, sort of the vocal equivalent of a wink of an eye.
	www.guitarmusician.com /blog/index.php?id=52 (590 words)

	Charlie Hunter Press - August 4, 1995
		There seem to be alien forces at work when Hunter plays his eight-string guitar: His thumb thumps smooth bass lines, while his fingers simultaneously tickle melodies and slap rhythms.
		Hunter's jazzy, polyrhythmic playing gives the semblance of three brains at work when he plays his custom-made instrument, which uses both electric guitar and bass guitar strings.
		And perhaps the only constant in Hunter's always-evolving career is his commitment to developing his playing on the unorthodox eight-string guitar.
	www.charliehunter.com /press/sactobee032199.html (832 words)

	eight string common pool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Then imagine you start playing guitar: play one chord (an E maj7 could be the 6th fret on the lowest three guitar strings).
		The chord could be a dominant7, such as 5th fret on the a string, 5th fret on the d string, 6th fret on the g string.
		Chord voicings on the 6 string can then easily be transferred to this instrument (although not all of them are as easily playable).
	home.planet.nl /~boons105 (1722 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Charlie Hunter
		Once you add two more strings, and install nonparallel frets and separate bass and guitar pickups, the equation gets infinitely more complex.
		Fifteen years after ordering his first eight-string guitar, Charlie Hunter is still struggling with the instrumental hydra.
		Frustrations aside, Hunter is one of the world's greatest string instrumentalists, playing both bass and guitar while at the same time crafting intense polyrhythmic tunes and improvisations.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.07.05/hunter-0549.html (672 words)

	CSIndy: Stringmeister (September 9, 2004)
		Hunter's Novax guitar (named after designer Ralph Novak) allows him to blend bass tones into standard guitar melodies, effectively accomplishing the sound of two musicians at once.
		Hunter has released 12 albums over the past decade, sweeping the honors in the contemporary jazz category with his trios, quartets and quintets.
		Hunter: I was a guitar and bass player before, and I spent some time on drums.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2004-09-09/bangstrum.html (730 words)

	guitar heads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		3- The boxwood dot inlaid in the headstock belongs to the camera guitar.
		5- Detail of the Elite guitar headstock, with inlaid boxwood.
		This headstock is the one used in the José Ramírez I and José Ramírez II professional guitars, as well as the first ones built by José Ramírez III - up to 1958, when the present one was designed.
	www.guitarrasramirez.com /eng-cabezas.htm (71 words)

	NPR : Charlie Hunter, Live in Studio 4A
		The 35-year-old player grew up in the San Francisco Bay area playing a more typical six-string guitar, taking lessons at age 14 from master guitarist Joe Satriani.
		Hunter's mother fixed instruments at a guitar shop in Berkeley -- a shop that was also the unofficial hangout of standout musicians from all over.
		In fact, many listeners often mistake Hunter's guitar for an organ because of the rich, vibrant sound and complex chords.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1229622 (521 words)

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