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This is a very unique "Le Tekro, 1/4 Stepper Guitar" known as "Quarter Stepper". An American craftsman named Bernie Hamburger made this guitar, and this is a proto-type. It had a Kramer logo as you can see in the picture to your left, but it is not a Kramer. This guitar has twice as many frets as normal guitars do below the 15th fret. Normal guitars have frets like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..., but this Quarter Stepper has frets of 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5... Black frets are the extra frets added to this guitar, and if you play those frets, you get a quartertone instead of bending a string like you do on the normal guitars. If you play white frets, you get the same tone as normal guitars. Ronni used this guitar in the solo to Wisdom on Intuition, on Rypdal & Tekro II, and several others. He's wanted some guitar manufacturers to rebuild this guitar, but he has no luck yet...

Back in the late 70s there was a group here that played middle of the road music and the guitarist had a Guitorgan quite a wild rig with sensors all over the neck that would create many organ voices along with guitar, unfortunately it was a dog and even though it sounded and played great was very prone to breakdown.

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Benedetto Bravo Elite 7-String as played by a friend.

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Not really a guitar, and maybe not THAT unusual but Musician's Friend is selling a Waterstone 12-string bass. 12 strings!

John Fogerty's Louisville Slugger baseball bat guitar he play when playing Centerfield is truly unique and sounds good too.

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Experience is the best teacher

Hi Bathead,Robin Zander of Cheap Trick has played a 12 string bass for over 20 yrs.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I believe that's what the Waterstone was modelled after. Twenty years,huh? Well, as I said maybe not that unusual, but I had never heard of it before, and 12 strings sounded like overkill to me.

Oops, Zander is the lead vocalist/singer. The bass players known for playing 8 and 12 string basses with CT are Tom Petersen or Pete Comita.

Love the band, the sound is awesome but must be a $@!&* to tune, And I don't think they come in short scale like I like my basses.

I jammed with a guitarist for awhile in college that had a "longhorn" Danelectro guitar, in tan and black, wierd and pretty ugly guitars I thought. Those were the strangest I'd ever seen in person.

The coolest guitar I have seen in action is the bass balalaika played by Oleg Bernov of Red Elvises:



He actually let me hold it once. That sucker weighs 40 pounds!

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

The fender swinger. Body like bronco but bottom is split

RRhoarse now that thing takes the cake for me.

Thanks for pointing out my faux pas regarding Robin Zander,It was Tom Peterson who used the 12 string bass.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Whatever the hell that lap-steel-ish bass-guitar thingy that John Paul Jones was using during the Them Crooked Vultures appearance on Austin City Limits the other week...

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I went up to the Travis Bean factory and got a tour of the operation from Travis Bean himself. I purchased a Travis Bean Artist thru a local music store. It was beautiful flame koa with a Reynolds aircraft aluminum neck. They were hardtails and held a great tune. Had a good sound too.

On the downside; it weighed a ton. I bought a very wide strap. The neck also felt cold all the time, which I did not like.

Here is a picture of one:

http://tinyurl.com/yjljcen

I'm surprised that folks mentioned Cheap Trick without mentioning Rick Nielsen's 5 neck or the 2 neck made to look like a cartoon version of him. In fact, the man himself is rather unusual...

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