do you like this vid? (pikasso guitar = "From Within" sound)

[xenomorph]

hey guys!
I was looking for information on baritone guitars when I saw this website of a luthier who makes baritone guitars and who made the "pikasso guitar"
there is a vid of a guy plying it.. do you like it?
I think it is very cool, a different guitar world, it makes me think of the JR song "From Within"!!

here is the link

http://www.manzer.com/web/index.php?thisid=158

[quartaumentata]

Nice sound and piece. Anyway, I always have the same feeling about this kind of "unique" instruments... Do they last and become considered as "standard", beginning to gather music written for them and a an increasing number of players devoted to developing technique to what they consider their main instrument?

Or do they stay as a "cutscene" (though nice and obviously clever) to be soon forgotten of?

Also, for this one in particular it seems to me that they haven't created a new/different guitar, but they have added a number of harp strings to a guitar. (and I wonder how this affects its playability on the guitar side).

That said the overall result, sound and look are amazing.

[Athox]

It looked like he had like the bass on the "regular" guitar, and then everything else was harp-ish... not guitar+harp, but bass+harp. subtle difference :tongue:

[rlainhart]

I saw Metheny play this guitar at a concert last year, and he really only uses it for that one tune, which is typically an open improvisation in the middle of the show. It's a lovely instrument, but a little limited, in spite of all the strings, because you're locked into one tuning with those open strings.

A little personal note: my brother, who is a Unix programmer and jazz guitarist in Boston, used to live with Mark Herbert, a luthier who is Pat's main guitar technician. My brother has played this instrument, which is where I got the opinion from. He says that Mark hates to work on this guitar - it takes all day just to unstring and restring it, and because of all the string tension, it's always warping, so it's in the shop a lot.

[xenomorph]

yeah, I thought about that when I saw the vid... awesome sound but very very limited..

[Antonio Mazzei]

there is a vid of a guy plying it.. do you like it?


A Guy? That's Pat Metheny! :)

He's Brilliant, as xenomorph said, i found it very limited too.. but he can still do it sound incredible!

i thought you were talking about Michel Camilo's "from within"

[attic-keys]

Nice vid, it''s kinda like a guitar which tries to do what we keyboard players do, a lot of keyboards around us at the same time, only here all those guitars are packed in one thing.

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