Rabs Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Ive been watching this guys vids recently to help me with my build.. Hes pretty good.. And saw this thing on one of the links.. Wow wee.. now thats different :) You can hear it in this vid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyMoon Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Nothing new...Pete Townshends been "detaching" guitars for years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Nothing new...Pete Townshends been "detaching" guitars for years! Lol.... it took me a few seconds to get that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Cool Idea. I seem to remember in the late '70s there was a company here in the UK - it could have been Shergold - which offered 'modular' twin-necks where there was a lower unit and an upper unit. The lower might be, say, a 4-string bass and the upper a 6- or 12-string 'regular' guitar; or else the lower might be a 6-string with a 12-string as the upper. The upper and lower units slid-clicked together and the electrics were installed in such a way that when the two parts were in place the wiring circuit was completed. Astonishingly, it didn't take the world by storm. LOL! I must see if I can track down something more accurate than my memory of something I read in an ad. 30+ years ago......... P. EDIT : I was getting two companies mixed up. The 'modular' double-neck was made by an American inventor called Charles Soupios. I've still got the original magazine article (Guitar Player, May '82!) but cannot find any picture of the beast on the web. Here's about the only info I could track down; “To (provide a specialized two-handed instrument), I offered a Biaxe double-neck guitar (U.S. Patent #4,240,319 in 1980), which combined a full-sized guitar with a longer, stick-form guitar module which was offset to provide more accessibility for two handed methods, and to distribute the weight more evenly.” Soupios original Biaxe was superceded in late 1980 by a new model. (Soupios states that legal threats from Chapman were the primary cause in this migration.) The new model permitted interchangeable necks of different lengths..." I'll scan the image in the original article so you can get a better idea of how it worked. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnorthw Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Mike Rutherford of Genesis played the Shergold guitar that had detachable parts, he used it through the early 80's and had either a 6 or 12 string on top then a bass on the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Thanks for that, Chris. I thought there was a Shergold like that but couldn't find out anything about it here at home. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisnorthw Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Here is Mike Rutherford playing his Shergold in this configuration with a 12 string on top.Having seen every Genesis tour from 1977 onwards (that's just aged me!) I've seen this played many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 That's the very one. Thanks again. FWIW I first saw Genesis on their 'A Trick of the Tail' tour and saw them through their Duke days after which I sort of moved over to Pastures New. I wish I had seen them before Peter Gabriel left. On the up-side, that first gig, they did the whole of 'Supper's Ready' which PG would never have allowed. I saw PG in concert just after he released his debut album (he was great!) but, again, never since. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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