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Topic: If you were to be given a quad, and weight wasn't a factor.. |
Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 3:01 pm |
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...what would your dream 4 neck steel consist of?
Let your mind flow! |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 3:34 pm
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| Four Rickenbacher A-25s. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 3:48 pm QUAD Steel........Hum....
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| My BIGSY with six pedals would be the one I'd pick. It's an original! |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 3:56 pm
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You two are refusing to flow!
However, I totally agree.
I asked Bobby Ingano a similar question yesterday, pertaining to a single neck, and his response was, after a long pause to think..., "2 knobs for tone and control, 7 string, strings thru the body..."
Great for 50-70 years ago!
BUT, this is 2007, Bigsby and Rickenbacher are dead.
Try harder, it's your dream! |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 4:09 pm
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| Are you aware of Todd Clinesmith's Bigsby reproductions? He bought all the original Bigsby casting hardware and is building the prototypes at this time. He told me he has the pickups for them as well. Email him for details. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 4:18 pm
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 4:25 pm Paul Bigsby may have crossed over but...............
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BIGSBY the fine musical instruments will NEVER DIE!
Moe Kabir of United Kingdom has a triple neck CHERRY WOOD, I believe it was, and he's thrilled with his reproduction. A beautiful machine, to be sure.
Okay, I'll let my mind flow.
I saw this vision last evening as I was turning into my local neighborhood......they never had ANYTHING LIKE THIS in my olde neighborhood. The vision stood about 5 foot 7-8 inches tall, perhaps 115-125 lbs., at the most; was wearing black,, silk looking running shorts and a tight T-shirt. Her blond hair was combed back loosely into a fluffy pony-tail. She was in supurb athletic form.
I could see her carrying my BIGSBY quad into the gig and setting it up for me.......and the reverse when the playing was thro'.
She of course couldn't be "first", but, very definitely could be "next"! |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:09 pm
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| I agree with Bobby Ingano. And Ray, did your dream have a sister? |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:27 pm Bigsby, no question,
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Well, I sure don't need four necks at all, I sold my Four neck Bigsby to a Dallas collector eight years ago, however, if I were playing any four neck guitar, I'd prefer Bigsby, and I'd be happy with the stock switchs and controls.
I played four neck Fender with "Hank III" (Tricephis) for a while, TV shows and the Opry, it gave me no problems, but the tone was a little sharp, clear and sparkle prone for me, but I'm sure I could have gotten used to it over time.
My choice of vintage axes today are the Bigsbys. I am down to two at the moment but I'm wanting a new Todd Clinesmith reproduction as soon as they are available. He is a great guy with a great talent for building custom instruments. Look for some great guitars coming from him in the future.
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:33 pm
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| Actually, a free quad? I'd cuttum' in half and I'd have two doubles, or--------------------------,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:43 pm
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:44 pm
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| Lot's of curly maple, amber finish, 4 necks with lots of strings on each one so I could enjoy being confused, two pickups on each neck (prefer two pickups on each arm, but I digress). |
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 7:53 pm Rudy Farmer, with respect.
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MLA, Ole' Rudy, this is a compliment I won't forget. Rudy did great Bigsby work with original parts.
Thank you Michael!
Bobbe |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 3 Jun 2007 8:16 pm
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Last edited by Michael Lee Allen on 28 Feb 2011 11:53 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 12:23 pm
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Glad to see at least one player that found this thread worthy of a sensible reply, thanx Michael!
That was exactly what I was hoping for, as the topic is more than merely hypothetical.
To futher this point, would anyone be interested in playing a quad with various scale lenghts or other such options?
What kind of body designs and graphics are floating around in your head?
I've got plenty of thots from the common to abstract already for future projects, and would love to know what other players can conjur up, that previously would have been silly to expect to become a reality. |
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Rockne Riddlebarger
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 1:51 pm
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| OK, How about this one....A quad SIX with the two near necks 23 inch scale and each powered by those old Gibson made pu's with the metal covers and the raised ridge and the two far necks 25" scale and hollow with piezo pickups for acoustic tone! The acoustic/electric quad. |
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Jeff Au Hoy
From:
Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 2:38 pm
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| i like these forum questions that have suitable and unsuitable responses |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2007 2:49 pm
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BUT, this is 2007, Bigsby and Rickenbacher are dead.
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I'll be happy to have my welding buddy ... TIG weld any two "Boobpans" to form a Quad ...
http://www.horseshoemagnets.com/_sgg/m2m3_1.htm
Your choice ...
All Four 22.5" ...
One 25.5 x Three 22.5"
Two 25.5" x Two 22.5"
Three 25.5" x One 22.5"
All Four 25.5"
Any combo of strings ... All 6, all 7, all 8, all 10, all 12 ... or .. mix & match.
Any combo of pickups ... 4 MRIs, 4 Potbellys, 4 Convertibles, ... mix and match ... whatever ...
Have to call it the "Udderpan" though ...
And it would weigh over 80 lbs w/o case ... and cost in the neighborhood of $4K.
But I'm willing ... |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2007 9:22 am
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I have a quad Wright and a quad stringmaster,
but my favorite quad has two 10-string necks,
a 5-string bass neck and a 12 string neck plus 66 vertical rods of 718 inconel:
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2007 12:53 pm
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Excellant gentlemen, great input.
Chas, you are a crazy man, and this world needs more like you! |
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Gerard Ventura
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2007 6:19 pm
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| chas smith wrote: |
my favorite quad has two 10-string necks,
a 5-string bass neck and a 12 string neck plus 66 vertical rods of 718 inconel:
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WHAT in the WORLD is that thing??!! |
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Gary Lynch
From:
Creston, California, USA
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Posted 5 Jun 2007 7:17 pm
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| You have never seen one before? It's the custom Asymmetrical Quad Ogg-Nogger just like Little Wigged Out Willie used to play. I know it looks basic. The six neck model had a lot more features. |
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Rockne Riddlebarger
From:
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2007 1:59 pm
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| Chas, what do those vertical rods do? |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2007 8:42 pm
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Rockne, the vertical rods are "welded", SiB, to thin steel plates and each plate has 11 rods. The plates are "woven" in the strings and the rods stick up between the strings. Each of the 10-string necks and the bass neck, have pickups on both ends of the neck. So, 4 of the plates are mounted over the pickups, and the other 2 are near the centers of each neck. There are also titanium rods woven in the strings between the plates.
I can bow the rods with a violin bow or strike them with hammered dulcimer hammers. These, in turn, make very complicated sounds, and usually, I play them into an Eventide H-8000.
This is a photo from a live performance that I did at The Schindler House. In the rack, along with the Eventide, are a couple of loopers where I'm recording real time loops, the longest being 4:30, and at this point in the piece, I've looped the rod strikes and bowed parts and am sight reading the score, that is also being looped on top of itself.
Following this, I "rolled" the bar on the bass neck slowly from low D down to C, which really throws everything "out of tune" and then back into a resolution. |
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Gerard Ventura
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 7 Jun 2007 5:55 am
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...the vertical rods are "welded", SiB, to thin steel plates and each plate has 11 rods. The plates are "woven" in the strings.....
As I suspected, just another hillbilly who couldn't hack the washtub bass, so he moved over to steel...
Seriously, do you have links to how that instrument (or ones like it) sound? |
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