I wanted to have two guitars with the same sound in one neck. My main guitar is a headless 16-string guitar that is basically two eight-string guitars put together.

Extended-range ace demonstrates extreme technique When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Forget eight- and nine-strings; Felix Martin ...

As they ring against the fretted notes, the open strings are crucial to the sound and feel of these chords. Practise each chord first by strumming, then picking each string individually to check that ...

A new 16-string, single-fret acoustic instrument called the Hanago has launched on Kickstarter, which is designed to combine the best aspects of piano and guitar to make learning to play easy ...

The folks at the Ernie Ball company, which produces 200,000 strings daily, and has sold over 2 billion of them, has come up with a solution, in what it calls the world's first break-resistant string.

In fact, he was such an accomplished musician, he wanted to be able to accompany himself on bass as he played the guitar. Toward this end, he designed a seven-string guitar in the late 1930s.

And then came the Djent 2018. After being let down by a New Hampshire instrument maker in 2017, Australia's Perry Ormesby built Jared Dines an 18 string guitar, which was unleashed at NAMM 2018.