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Post subject: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:25 pm
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tell me.. what do you think ??????


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:29 pm
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The bridge is going to be an Issue, but why ???? I have played a couple of 7 strings and it's not really what a Strat does but If you are playing progressive and Jazz, it would have it's niche ...

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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:48 am
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I have enough trouble with 6, adding more would be a complete waste, IMO
having run out of ideas with 6.? not sure more is the answer.

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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:56 am
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7 make sense to me (adding a lower one to go kinda baritone).

8 doesn't make sense to me.
They are for experimentalists who seek out higher challenges.

There's even people who are bored by the "unchallenging" science of quantumphysics! :lol:

If I wanted more than 6 strings, I'd play harp! :wink:

If even Steve Vai says, that playing a sevenstring is like playing a different instrument, then it MEANS something!
I'm challenged enough by 6 strings.

I played 7strings a couple of times in stores and friends' homes.
For me, the neck is too wide and I either ignore the 7th or play power chords only.
As soon as it comes to chords, I'm lost.

8 strings is way out of discussion for me.

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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:11 am
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There was once a Squier Stratocaster VII that was offered in H-S-S and H-H configurations. They only made for a sort time and are pretty rare.


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:19 am
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ninoalic wrote:
tell me.. what do you think ??????


Too challenging for me! I build cigar box guitars and the like, so am inclined to want to have fewer strings.

As Keith Richards put it, all you need to play guitar is "five strings, three chords, two fingers and one arsehole". Why complicate matters? :)

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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:23 am
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93greenstrat wrote:
There was once a Squier Stratocaster VII that was offered in H-S-S and H-H configurations. They only made for a sort time and are pretty rare.

There have been seven string Fenders as well. As you say, they don't tend to stick around for long: for some reason the guys who need the power of seven mostly seem to use Ibanez. If more than a tiny handful of players wanted them, Fender would have carried on making them.

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(I've an idea the one in the photo is probably a CS. But I have a hazy memory of the factory doing them too, though I stand to be corrected.)

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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:25 am
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Ceri wrote:
for some reason the guys who need the power of seven mostly seem to use Ibanez.
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Yep, because they mostly play power chords anyway, for metal and death metal.
Ibanez & Co. are way better made for this and are adressed to exactly THAT group of customers (mainly).

I've heard some experimental 7 string players in the past, finger acrobats and always in search for new miracles to be discovered in guitars.

Many times it was just crazy noise which did never fully reveal it's "art" to me.
(Just like modern Jazz is just a completely senseless and random chain of unmelodical notes to me. Sorry for that, dear Jazz fans! :oops: ).

Some are really over the top musical artists.

I think, you rather find them in the exotic acoustic section, rather than in the electric guitar section.

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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:42 am
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Smokin' Frets wrote:
Many times it was just crazy noise which did never fully reveal it's "art" to me.

Haha! Well, I didn't like to say, but... :D

Anyhow. Why stop at seven?

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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:04 am
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Ceri wrote:
93greenstrat wrote:
There was once a Squier Stratocaster VII that was offered in H-S-S and H-H configurations. They only made for a sort time and are pretty rare.

There have been seven string Fenders as well. As you say, they don't tend to stick around for long: for some reason the guys who need the power of seven mostly seem to use Ibanez. If more than a tiny handful of players wanted them, Fender would have carried on making them.

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(I've an idea the one in the photo is probably a CS. But I have a hazy memory of the factory doing them too, though I stand to be corrected.)

Cheers - C


Did the Alex Gregory model actually make into production? I seems that Mr. Gregory went over to Hamer after things soured with Fender.


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:18 am
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Ceri wrote:
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(I've an idea the one in the photo is probably a CS. But I have a hazy memory of the factory doing them too, though I stand to be corrected.)

Cheers - C
:shock: I never even imagined such a creature. A 7-string, 24-fret Strat. Do you think it's extinct or are there some survivors? :lol:

Cheers!
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:49 pm
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Squier Stratocaster VII videos. Oh men they sound good and look good


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 8:04 am
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Bluer Monkey wrote:
Ceri wrote:
(I've an idea the one in the photo is probably a CS. But I have a hazy memory of the factory doing them too, though I stand to be corrected.)

Cheers - C
:shock: I never even imagined such a creature. A 7-string, 24-fret Strat. Do you think it's extinct or are there some survivors? :lol:

Cheers!
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It's an Alex Gregory signature model. There was another prototype that had a reverse headsotck and no pickguard. To the best of my knowledge, neither of them ever made it into production. For whatever reason, the deal with Fender fell apart so Mr. (ahem...."Maestro") Alex Gregory took his idea over the folks at Hamer which resulted in another prototype or two that never made it into regular production. Not being much of a quitter, the idea was then submitted to ESP Guitars.

Unlike most modern 7-string guitars, the A.G. model (and BTW, he claims to be the inventor of the 7-string solid-body electric) features a high A string rather than a low B.


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 4:20 pm
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carpel tunnel...7 or 8 strings should be played like a lap steel....or a couple years of playing and your wrists will be a mess


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Post subject: Re: seven or eight strings strat concept
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:47 pm
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Just my own personal opinion here but before you go to the trouble of building or buying, -PLAY- a couple of 7 strings first! A guy I was working with a few years back had one and he loved it, but I thought it was flat out annoying...I just never got the hang of it. Aside from the tuning, I found it terribly uncomfortable to play.

Again just my own opinion,
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