Yamaha acoustic 9 string custom

John discusses and plays a prototype 9 string acoustic guitar that he made from a 12 string Yamaha FG-230 acoustic guitar. It was designed for Raga Alap type music.

link: http://www.johnhguitar.com/john-heussenstamm/GuitarReviews.php

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Music

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• custom
• acoustic
• guitar
• review
• reviews
• raga
• alap
• indian
• music
• Yamaha
• FG-230
• sympathetic
• strings
• nine
• twelve
• string
• sitar
• Ravi
• Shankar
• chords

[topdog2328]

so do you tune the sympathetic strings at all?

[johnhguitar]

You tune them to the scale of the mode, key, or raga you're in. That way they resonate to the notes you play which gives the guitar its own reverb effect.

Thanks for your interest.

[Hyrax56]

I like it! Great idea there with the sympathetic strings. Good sound even just with plywood and passably sitar-like.Still love that moment at the concert for Bangladesh when the audience break into rapturous applause for Ravi Shankar and he says" I was just tuningup....."

[johnhguitar]

One time when Ravi was playing a jet plane went overhead at an outdoor concert and the vibration from the plane was slightly higher than the tuning of the instruments. Ravi and Allah Raka quickly tuned their instruments to harmonize with the plane going over. They use the jet's sound like a Tambora. I would have like to see and hear that.

Thanks for the friendly comments.

[MartinArgg]

It's the first time I listen to one of these "extrange guitars" with extra strings around them, that actually sounds good. You're a good player

[johnhguitar]

Thank you very much. I really like this instrument and find it perfect for this sort of music. The more I listen to recordings of it the more I like it. Someday I'll invest in a higher profile model with finer woods. Thanks again.

[imakedookie]

if you made this during the 60s, civilization would collapse, as everybody would be too high playing one of these.

[johnhguitar]

Not at all. I don't hit those tuners. In truth any guitar starts going out of tune the second you start playing it.

[aahmed47]

emotional guitarist.....loved it yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Hyrax56]

Didn't know that story- masterful musicians indeed, so aware of every sound around them! Thanks for sharing that.

[eviltreebranch]

very creative..

[dealerbinq]

best 9 string guitar ever! this sounds beautifull, instead of the electric 9 string guitars wo sound like shit

[DistortedBrain]

When he says custom, he means custom aha

[readingtrees]

outstanding in so many ways!!! Cheers.