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The 20 string electric-acoustic harp guitarBuilt in 2010, this instrument was designed in collaboration with the musician who will be playing it. The string layout has 6 sub bass strings tuned F G A B C D, 6 main strings tuned E A D G B E and 8 super trebles tuned efgabcde.
It is a hollowbody electric with magnetic pickups for each bank of strings plus an acoustic pickup underneath the top. A 2 channel preamp mixes the 2 pickup systems.
Each magnetic pickup has it's own tone and volume plus a single coil split switch to get either a P90 or a humbucker sound. The active preamp has controls for bass, mid, treb and gain for the magentic and acoustic pickups plus knobs to blend the two into a stereo output jack.
If you are interested in
commisioning a custom harp guitar please let me know and we can
discuss tunings, woods, inlay. etc. Every one is unique and built
to custom order. If you would like more information feel free
to contact me at Jim@WorlandGuitars.com
The 20 strings are laid
out to be easily accessible and easy to tune.
Both necks bolt on for easy
adjustment. The rectangular box is a compartment for a 9V battery.
The 8 small holes in the middle of the back are adjustments for
the preamp so you can adjust the EQ and gain of both channels.
The large control cover can be removed to get access to the electronics
and other internal components.
The main neck is a typical
guitar neck. The bass neck is fretless but it has marks to indicate
the fret locations for playing harmonics and a little fretless
playing. It's not intended to be a full playing neck but is mainly
for open strings to fill in the bass register.
Standard tuning machines
are used for the melody and sub bass strings.
One reason we decided on
a hollow body design was to provide room for all the electronics.
It also adds quite a bit of acoustic tone.
Here's how I made this thing.
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