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Dave Rickard
 Post subject: Smith 18 string guitar
PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:33 pm 
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Any one ever seen one of these.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ink:top:en

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Frightening! wow7-eyes

Question: How long does it take to tune an 18string guitar?
Answer: Nobody knows.....
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I believe the time goes up exponentially, 4 times as long for twelve strings, so 16 times as long for 18.
Got to hope the temperature and humidity is controlled wherever it's being played!!

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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:o Ahh! What the heck is that thing. FRANKENSTEIN LIVES!

That bridges must be held on with lag bolts.

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Can you imagine shelling out all those bucks on da tuners!?
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eggs-actly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I only have one question when I see this. The same question I asked myself when they did a Titanic TWO: Why?

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