This guitar has heavy gauge low strings and light gauge high strings; fingerstyle picking can produce lead riffs as well as basslines due to the wide pitch range. Two single coil pickups with missing pole pieces divide the lower and higher strings for stereo amplification and effects. Double strings for highest course create phasing effect when bending, and the tailed bridge tuned to 1:4 harmonic can be played for effects. This design is based on a guitar modification by Jesse Hall from Experimental Dental School.
An Esquire guitar design with twelve high pitch harp strings tuned across one octave in a circle of fourths. The harp strings have a separate output jack, and are tuned with a screwdriver. This design is based on Yuri Landman's Burner Harp guitar
A nine string guitar, with higher strings in double courses. This design was popular in the 70s, and I find it much more functional than a regular 12 string guitar, as the low courses do not have octave pairs. I designed a tremolo arm that controls only 6 of the strings, creating a phase difference between the double course strings when bending. This effect is especially cool when the guitar is played through a distortion pedal, as it creates a tremolo effect. The two pickups are positioned parallel to each other, which allows for the lower and higher courses to be played through different effects and amps. The guitar can also be played in a mono configuration.
A Fret-less electric guitar with a buzz bridge, similar to the Sitar. A single coil pickup and piezo acoustic pickup are wired in parallel with a blend knob to fade between the two. This design is based on the Sarod, an Indian classical instrument. The design idea came from a modification that I found here. Sarod Improvisation by LevySoundDesign
