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This whole section of the website was set up for as supporting material for a fund raiser for my (Jack's)
2016 9-string guitar project (which brought in about 10% of the total budget in small and large donations,
CD sales and sale of my old guitars, and I would like to express my general gratitude once again to those
who helped). Some of these pages have redundant material, and not all has been
updated, so here and there you will find the 9-string referred to as still in the future, and there
is to some degree some contradictory information between the things I planned to do, and things I actually did.
Nevertheless, there is a good deal of technical information and anecdotal report which may be useful to
those people who are interested in the construction of extended range guitars ("ERGs"), or to those unfortunates
(you know who you are) who are possessed by GAS, that is,
Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. I, Jack, suppressed this section of the website for a couple of years, because I
was experiencing some physical difficulties with playing the new 9 string guitar
during that time, and it seemed inappropriate to crow about
it under the circumstances. But I have overcome (or at least passed through) the difficulties (knock on wood) and it seems
a pity not to offer this information to those who might want it, since it was very hard for us to come
by trustworthy and useful information about the design and specifications of multi-scale instruments
at the time that we started this process.
As of 2019 we, Jack and Frances, play two extended range guitars. Jack has a multi-scale 9-string, and Frances a short-scale seven string. We use nylon strings and external piezo pickups.
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