Charlie Hunter's 8 string guitar tuning
noo...@ibm.net
>Hiya all,
>
> I just watched Charlie Hunter's Trio's first gig in Australia last
>night... That guy was awesome live.
> He plays an 8 string custom guitar with fanned frets and split
>pickups. He has 3 bass strings and 5 guitar strings. I was wondering how
>he tunes his guitar.
> Thanks for your help.
Just the way it looks, actually. He tunes the bottom three strings are tuned
just like the bottom three strings of a bass (EAD) and the top five guitar
strings are tuned just like the top five strings of a guitar (ADGBE). He
then sends the bass strings straight to a bass amp, and the guitar strings
through a Korg G4 Leslie speaker simulator, a volume pedal, a wah and into
a guitar amp. The frets are angled the way they are so that the scale length
remains consistant for each string, since a bass has a longer scale than a
guitar. Looks like it would have horrible intonation problems, but it works.
If you like Charlie Hunter's playing, there is a great lesson with him in the
November Guitar Player magazine.
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> Hiya all,
>
> I just watched Charlie Hunter's Trio's first gig in Australia last
> night... That guy was awesome live.
> He plays an 8 string custom guitar with fanned frets and split
> pickups. He has 3 bass strings and 5 guitar strings. I was wondering how
> he tunes his guitar.
> Thanks for your help.
>
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> Erwin Loh - ric...@fawlty1.eng.monash.edu.au
> Fifth Year Medical Student, University of Melbourne, Australia.
>
check out last month's issue of Guitar Player--the one with "how to make a
living playing guitar" on the cover. it features a lengthy and
interesting private lesson/interview with charlie.
adam