7 string Gibson???

[onewilyfool]

Anyone seen one of these? I have enough trouble with SIX strings!!!

 

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/4442217049.html

[slimt]

an Epiphone? first time Ive seen one...

[Hogeye]

Gibson/Montana made 7 strings back in the middle 90's. They were limited and not advertised. I believe Dave's Guitar in Lacrosse bought and sold all of them. Probably only 10 or so were ever built. I often wondered what happened to them.

 

They were built on the J-200 body and the extra string was on the bass side like the big arch-top F hole jazz boxes that were being built at the time. Several very prominent jazz players used them. Gibson had a product specialist that was a monster player and he had the idea that they were the next big thing. Ren did the design and they were very interesting to try to play. I tried a few and gave up.

[zombywoof]

Seven stringers have been a big thing in electrics for a while now. I have seen some really old seven string acoustics but figured they were an idea that had not yet arrived as they seem to have gone the way of the Dodo bird before WWII (or probably WWI). But like you I find six strings daunting enough.

[BigKahune]

... I find six strings daunting enough.

 

10 strings! . .

 

[zombywoof]

I have been known to remove the two lowest octave strings on a 12 string guitar so actually get along pretty well with 10 string guitars.

[BigKahune]

I have been known to remove the two lowest octave strings on a 12 string guitar so actually get along pretty well with 10 string guitars.

 

Yes, the chime up top and the clear base below. . B)

 

 

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[j45nick]

There was a period in the 60's when a number of blues/folkies added a second B string to a regular six-string guitar for a pretty funky tone. I seem to recall Perry Miller (aka Jesse Colin Young) doing it.

[zombywoof]

There was a period in the 60's when a number of blues/folkies added a second B string to a regular six-string guitar for a pretty funky tone. I seem to recall Perry Miller (aka Jesse Colin Young) doing it.

 

Son House once recalled that he saw Robert Johnson playing a seven string guitar.

 

But you got me on seeing them in the 1960s. I recall guys taking their cue from Big Joe Williams and playing a nine string guitar but I do not recall ever running into a seven string guitar. I would think though there had to be some folkies out there experimenting with a guitars from Mexico or Brazil.

 

I do have a nine string square neck lap guitar that started out life as a round neck Regal parlor.

[Tarrr]

Eastman Music Co does very well in the Jazz market with their 7 string models, their archtops are excellent. Year ago I traded my AR810ce for a thinline T184MX.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EASTMAN-JAZZ-ELITE-17-7-String-ARCHTOP-Kent-Armstrong-Guitars-n-Jazz-Summit-NJ-/310400242023?_trksid=p2054897.l5658