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Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:27 am
by rick36
Update on the Taylor 9 string: U.S. Suggested Retail Price – $4998.00. Oh boy, I guess they'll be selling lots of these...
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:27 am
by ken_j
jps wrote:Alvarez did something similar many years ago, so Taylor missed the boat!
As I recall the Alvarez had a G octave string and B and E unison strings. This Taylor has a unison at B and octaves at D and G.
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:05 pm
by jps
I don't recall the details, just that it had 9 strings. The lead guitarist in The Karma Kings used to have one.
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:17 pm
by jimk
rick36 wrote:Update on the Taylor 9 string: U.S. Suggested Retail Price – $4998.00. Oh boy, I guess they'll be selling lots of these...
I'll take a pass. For that kind of bread, I can think of some other guitars I'd rather have.
JimK
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:33 pm
by murphy12
Check out some of The Byrdbrains vids on youtube. Iain has a custom-made 9-string. Don't know why he doesn't just use a Ric 12, but he says he likes that guitar.
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:00 pm
by whojamfan
jimk wrote:I'd like to recommend that this entire thread be relocated to another, more appropriate section of the RRF. Although it's an interesting discussion, and one I'd like to see continue, its relationship to the Byrds is tangential at best, in my honest opinion. So I think I'm going to attempt to move it to The Others.
(Which will give me time to figure out how to work the software on that spiffy new camera.
)
JimK
Oh yeah, give it to Mikey, he likes anything
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:15 pm
by wj350
I'm intrigued....I have a Taylor A/E, a 324 CE Koa...one of the nicest guitars I've played. I guess my only concern would be the uneven strain on the neck on the high E side?
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:56 pm
by teb
Nine string?....No problem, gimme a minute....
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:39 pm
by jimk
teb wrote:Nine string?....No problem, gimme a minute....
There ya go. No problems.
JimK
Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:35 pm
by rick36
Todd, that's the best one of all, three snips and voila! But - where to snip?
Big Joe Williams had his own unique system (It never really caught on though). Try this on your favorite 6 string...
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Re: New 9 String Acoustic Guitar
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:13 pm
by teb
I converted a banjo to nine strings back about 1971 and its headstock looked pretty similar.