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Any thoughts on this bad boy? Any considerations as to what the heck one would DO with such a weapon?

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/world/country/frame_canada.html

Posted by Zombre 952 days 7 hours 32 minutes ago

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/img2007/eg/m/RG2228_GK_00_01.gif

Try that link instead, sorry!

Posted by Zombre 952 days 7 hours 33 minutes ago

What do people do with an 11-stringed instrument (bass&guitar in one)?

It looks funny. Chubby...

Looks like it has an extra top string... Since ibanez uses 9s on the RGs, how thin is the extra top string? How far up can you tune a .008 string before it snaps?

Detuned 7strings have probably become cliche already... now they needed to offer something beyond that...

Posted by ibzRG 943 days 23 hours 33 minutes ago

Well, it's all good. I think we could really start seeing some cool stuff out of 7 strings again; I mean, the cool thing is that people seem to use 'em in ways that aren't really expected or intended...

Posted by Zombre 864 days 6 hours 29 minutes ago

People have been playing guitars is odd and funny ways for well over a hundred years... What extra can a 7th or 8th string add to those ways other than the extra range? If you have any particular vids in mind, I'd be happy to view them!

Posted by ibzRG 864 days 4 hours 29 minutes ago

IT scares me!!

Seriously, I just started playing 7 strings. And then they go and do something like this!! How the hell are you gonna wrap your hand around that?!?!?

Posted by jg76aries 855 days 15 hours 30 minutes ago

Well, if you like thumbing the low string, you can start forgetting about that.

Some 6-string things are so much easier if your thumb can reach for the E-string. With a 7string, thumbing the E gets near impossible unless you got huge hands. With an 8string it's goodbye...

Posted by ibzRG 761 days 21 hours 47 minutes ago

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