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| Anyone out there have or play a longneck ? I am curious as to it's sound and advantages. Thanks, Steve |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | ME TOO |
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Location: Scotland | One of the benefits of longer scale guitars is that you can use very low tunings such as C, B or even A with heavy strings while maintaining a relatively conventional feel. With regular strings & scale length tunings this low feel sloppy and the low tension doesn't drive the top effectively, so tone and volume suffer. A longneck with big strings down to an open B tuning sounds huge. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was designed to be used with open tunings in mind. the longer scale lets you tune the strings down but still get good tension and they won't flap. The idea occured to me when Debanjo and I were watching Gordon Giltrap at the Trace stand at the Frankfort Music Messe. He was doing this great stuff but was tuned down so far that the strings would flap it not hit 110%perfectly. Debanjo and I got talking and we said what if the neck was 2 frets longer and you tuned to D? Might work. I said lets keep it 14 frets so this way it will be like a twelve fret guitar and have the bridge back more in the middle of the top which always sounds better. So with that the R&D guys were given their orders and 4 were built. Adamaii. It worked great. (Then the point was made that if it was cheaper maybe we could sell more so the production versions were spruce tops.)
The first were 4, 6 strings. Then a few more, 4-6 maybe, one of which was silver and after taking as tour with Ardian it has retired to Florida. Then we made a couple for Preston. Naturally we had to try a 12 and I think 6 of those were made. 2 went to Mellissa, never heard what she thought. I think all the 12s were black. I don't know what's been done since late 98.
Russ, you got to try one. The wood tops do sound good also. The concept really works because of the elite/adamas soundhole/bracing pattern.
there's the story of the long neck.
Oh yes, the other thing. I wanted to call it the D guitar since it is supposed to be tuned to D. Marketing (David Bergstrom) wanted to call it the Longneck. Felt it had a better ring to it. Brings to mind the Texas cows or the Buds you use to wash down the dust from riding the trail all day. Hey, who can argue with that? Never mind that the neck really isn't longer, it's the scale, not the neck, and it's at the bridge, but who's counting these little details?!?
SO, Longneck it is! |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | hola bill, you've never steered me wrong yet. where can i try/buy one. i used to play in open tunings alot back a few decades when i was personally in an altered tuning. betcha the longneck sound would be perfect for our bubba and the bottom feeders stuff. |
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