Thursday 16 July 2009

Some more scary "harp guitars" on eBay

Harp guitar banjo - wouldn't the 5th string tuner on the banjo neck get in the way when playing the guitar neck?

The 18-string Thing - with 10-string nylon-strung neck, and inexplicably 8 additional steel treble strings on the body. The cutaway hardly looks very useful either.

The 15-string Electric Upright Harp Bass - I reckon they are making these things up as they go along. I don't think those treble strings would be very reachable when playing the bass in an upright position. I'm a little suspicious also of inlays in fretless fingerboards, which need to be as smooth as possible with no potential ridges or edges that the strings might catch on.

2 comments:

  1. Do you happen to remember how much the Banjo/Guitar/Harp went for? I have found this guitar in a junk shop near me and i'm very very tempted to buy it. Do you have any information on it at all?

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  2. I'm afraid I don't have a record of the price. This blog post is from before I started to keep note of the prices of guitars we feature on the blog.

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