A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Raissance.
Today, the most common type of multi-neck guitar is the double-neck guitar, of which the most common version is an electric guitar with twelve strings on the upper neck, while the lower neck has the normal six. Combination six-string and bass guitar are also used, as well as a fretless guitar with a regular fretted guitar, or any other combination of guitar neck and pickup styles. There are also acoustic versions. Two necks allows the guitarist to switch quickly and easily betwe guitar sounds without taking the time to change guitars.
There are many ways to customize a multiple-necked guitar, such as the number of strings on a neck, frets or no frets, the tuning used on each neck, etc. One of the earliest designs still in regular use is the acoustic contraguitar, invted around 1850 in Vina. This guitar, also known as the Schrammel guitar, has a fretted six-string neck and a second, fretless neck with up to nine bass strings.
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One of the more common combinations is where one neck of a double-necked guitar is set up as for a 6 string guitar and the other neck is configured as a 4 string bass guitar. Guitarist Pat Smear of the Foo Fighters utilizes a double-necked guitar during live performances (bass guitar top neck, six-string electric guitar bottom neck) in order to perform Krist Novoselic's bass part in the song I Should Have Known, from the album Wasting Light, in addition to his own duties. Rickbacker International Corporation and Gibson Guitar Corporation in the US have both manufactured production models of these configurations in the past.
A less common configuration has a 12-string guitar neck combined with a 4-string bass guitar neck: Geddy Lee of Rush is well known for using the 4/12-string Rickbacker 4080/12 production model live in the 1970s.
In the 1970s and 1980s Mike Rutherford of Gesis was known for playing a custom-made Shergold Modulator twin-neck guitar-bass unit in live shows, as he frequtly changed betwe lead guitar, 12-string guitar and bass guitar, depding on the arrangemt of the song. The unique design of this guitar set is that it consists of several modular elemts, that could be separated and combined by a system of dowels and thumbscrews, including an electrical connection. The complete set originally consisted of a 6-string guitar top-section, two 12-string guitar top-sections to have differt tunings readily available, and a 4-string bass bottom-section. The bass section could be attached to any of the top-sections to create a variety of twin-neck combinations. (Additionally there was a smaller lower-body-section which could be attached to any of the top-sections wh they were not in use as part of a double-neck configuration, to complete the shape of a single guitar.)
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As a tongue-in-cheek referce to Rutherford's frequt use of this double-neck guitar, the puppet version of Rutherford in the video for Land of Confusion plays a four-necked guitar.
Electric bass guitars with two or more necks have existed at least since the 1970s. Some basses have three or more necks, but usually upon custom order only. A double-necked bass guitar can be used for multiple tuning (e.g., B-E-A-D on one neck and E-A-D-G on the other, etc.); combining fretted and fretless necks; combining necks with differt numbers of strings, etc.
Carvin Guitars made double-necked guitars and basses from 1959 to 1993; their business model relies greatly on custom-made instrumts, and it has produced a number of double-neck bass guitars, including one with a fretted and a fretless neck, the DN440T, made for Steve McDonald.
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Chris Squire of Yes played a custom triple neck bass on Awak on Going for the One (1977). This is a replica of a model built by Wal for Roger Newell of Rick Wakeman's band, the glish Rock semble. Squire's original had a four-string fretted neck, a four-string fretless neck, and a six-string tuned in octaves (tuned to aA-dD-gG). This bass is currtly on display at the Hard Rock Cafe.
Steve Digiorgio used a multiple-necked bass guitar with a fretless neck and another fretted neck. A number of makers have also produced double neck basses with an 8-string bass neck (double courses, tuned in octaves like a 12-string guitar) on top and a 4-string bass neck on the bottom. Double neck basses with various other combinations exist, such as 4-string/6-string and 4-string/5-string.
Multiple-neck guitars have also be made which include other stringed instrumts among the alternate necks. Country guitarist Joe Maphis played a double-neck Mosrite instrumt that had a regular 6-string neck on the bottom and an octave guitar for the top neck. This was a 6-string neck tuned an octave higher than the standard guitar, that both extded the range of the instrumt, and allowed Maphis to play mandolin-like sounds. Betwe 1958-1968, Gibson made an instrumt of this type which it called the Double Mandolin (Gibson EMS 1235).
Gibson Eds 1275 Double Neck Guitar
Hybrids with a 6-string guitar neck and a true 8-string mandolin neck were also made (e.g., the 1971 Dawson Electric guitar/mandolin). And Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones has a triple-neck electroacoustic instrumt, custom made for him by luthier Andy Manson, which features (from top to bottom) 8-string mandolin, 12-string guitar, and 6-string guitar necks.
In 2011, the National Guitar Museum unveiled the Rock Ock, which it calls the world’s largest fully playable multi-necked stringed instrumt. The 8-necked guitar weighs 40 pounds, has 154 frets, 51 strings, and 8 necks. The eight instrumts are a mandolin, ukulele, 6-string, fretless bass, standard bass, 12-string, baritone guitar, and a 7-string. The guitar was designed by noted artist Gerard Huerta (responsible for the iconic AC/DC logo, among others) and built by Dan Neafsey of DGN Custom Guitars. The guitar hardware was supplied by Mojo Musical Supply while the instrumt itself was commissioned by the National Guitar Museum. The instrumt has be used in live performance and can be se on YouTube.
Some luthiers not only built guitars with two necks in common configurations, but worked to expand the possibilities with multiple necks, extra bridges, odd configurations, and the like. Hans Reichel crafted a series of third bridge guitars with two necks on both sides of the body. Linda Manzer crafted the Pikasso guitar (a three neck guitar with 42 strings) for Pat Methy. Solmania is an Osaka-based noise music band known for making their own experimtal electric guitars out of spare parts. The guitars usually take an extremely bizarre form, utilizing unconvtional body shapes, extra necks, strings and pickups in unusual places, and various extraneous gadgets such as microphones. Most of their instrumts are double neck guitars or harp guitars.
A Brief History Of Multi Neck And Double Neck Guitars
But this can be managed with practice. Triple neck instrumts are ev weightier and more unwieldy. This raises the question as to whether some of the larger varieties of multi-neck guitar are ev playable as guitars, much less practical in performance situations. The bottom neck of Rick Niels's famous five-neck Hamer guitar is barely reachable by a person of average stature holding the instrumt in a normal standing playing position, and it's hard to see how that neck could be played with any facility with both arms extded to their limit just to reach it. Although playable hybrids with up to eight necks have be produced (see the Rock Ock, above), five necks would seem to be the practical limit for multi-neck guitars.
Luthiers seem, however, to be undeterred by either practicality, or by the limits of human anatomy, and have produced instrumts with ev more necks. In 2008, Macari's Music of London commissioned a six-neck guitar (the beast),
Similar in design to Niels's five-neck. Yamantaka Eye, of the Japanese noise/rock band Boredoms, has toured with a sev-neck guitar (the Seva). This instrumt has four necks on one side and three on the other, and is mounted on a stand and played with drumsticks as a percussion instrumt.
Mosrite Doubleneck Owned And Played By Roy Nichols, Arch Top Hollow Body Electric Guitar, C. 1959, Brown Hard Shell Case.
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth playing a Dean twin-neck. Note the machine heads for the 12-string secondary strings on the edge of the body.The web browser that you are currently using is no longer supported, and as such features of this website may not work as expected. We advise you to update to a currently supported browser (such as Chrome, Edge, or Firefox) to improve your security, speed, and overall experience.
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