ten-string guitar

There are also several patterns of modern ten-string guitar but all have ten single strings, played individually.

Eventually they came up with a ten-string guitar.

New music specifically written for the ten-string guitar can make use of the extra strings however the composer might wish.

Ten-string guitar for all guitars with ten strings.

There are many varieties of ten-string guitar, including:

In another corner, there is a custom-made ten-string guitar, which can incorporate sounds heard on a Renaissance lute.

Starting in 1963, and for the rest of his life, Yepes used only the ten-string guitar in recording and performance.

The tuning of the Yepes ten-string guitar is:

They all preferred the ten-string guitar."

She also preferred my ten-string guitar."

For guitars with more than six separate strings, see extended-range classical guitar or ten-string guitar.

These are six-course instruments, unlike most ten-string guitars which either have ten individual strings or five two-string courses.

B.C.Rich produce three models of solid body ten-string guitar, all of them strung and tuned in the same way.

Hunter also has a ten-string guitar based on the same principle-a combination of standard six-string guitar and standard four-string bass.

The modern ten-string guitar, invented by Narciso Yepes, adds four string resonators to the traditional classical guitar.

I can honestly say that during the concert I played the same compositions once on the six-string guitar and once on the ten-string guitar.

"The Ten-String Guitar".

As Yepes pointed out, the first criticism from Segovia already came "before he had seen or even heard the instrument, soon after Ramirez made the ten-string guitar."

More radical still, in 1963 Ramírez built a ten-string guitar for Narciso Yepes, to accommodate Yepes' unique chromatically balanced tuning.

He is probably best known for his customized ten-string guitar, which allows him to create a unique, layered-sound normally only accomplishable using multiple instruments or post-recording techniques such as overdubbing.

The viola braguesa and viola amarantina, for instance, are two types of ten-string guitars from the north of Portugal, which are closely related to the viola caipira.

After 1964, Yepes used the ten-string guitar exclusively, touring all six inhabited continents, performing in recitals as well as with the world's leading orchestras, giving an average of 130 performances each year.

He recorded the Concierto de Aranjuez for the first time with the ten-string guitar in 1969 with Odón Alonso conducting the Orquesta Sinfonica R.T.V. Española.

The Halo Guitars XSI is a solid body ten-string guitar with ten individual steel strings, two EMG ten-string pickups, and a Kahler ten-string tremolo bridge.

In January, 2009, Gadotti Guitars announced the 10 String Nylon King Electric, a solid body, nylon-stringed ten-string guitar, suitable for both Yepes and other tunings such as the Baroque.