What is this i don't even?

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A Warr guitar? I haven't seen one with that body shape, but they're played like a Chapman Stick. Trey Gunn, formerly with King Crimson, played them.
Warr Guitars on myspace - with audio clips
Trey Gunn on myspace, with audio and video of him playing Warr Guitars

You need to watch the video clip of him tracking a solo with one of these. It sounds at first like there's a pitch shifter effect on it, but I think he's actually tracking the second part of a solo where two of these things play in harmony. Pretty freaky.

For me it's not that they have too many strings. It's that it's a completely different instrument than the guitar. Different techniques, and I've seen guys play pieces where they play bass, chords and melody on them all at the same time, like on a piano. I don't have enough time on my hands to practice the 6 string guitar so that I'm able to play it as well as I want to. I certainly haven't got time to become a multi-instrumentalist, though it would be cool.
 
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I'm not sure whether to call that a bass or not. I'm sure it can play both octaves of a bass and guitar....plus some.
 
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I think the concept is cool and have seen it applied well in other instruments, but the boat paddle-sized headstock sporting no less than 12 full-sized bass tuners looks absolutely idiotic.
 
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I'm not sure I see the point. It's like combining two guitarists into one?
Why not just use a pedal or, even more crazy, another guitarist? Instead of learning to play that crazy piece of kit.
 
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The pickup options on that would keep this place going in threads for a week.

"I need a humbucker for the top six strings of my weird ass guitar. On the neck side. The 59 is too boomy, I was thinking of the Jazz."

"You need to put an A2 in there."
 
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