For the Big Guitar Nerds

I've been delving to the roots lately from my first inspiration Jimmy Page to Bert Jansch back to Davy Graham, who I learned got most of his exotic sound from living in Morocco and actually created the DADGAD tuning to play with oud players there. While doing the youtube surf and trying to find oud music for guitar I found this amazing instrument and a darn good player.

Wow, beautiful playing!  

I love oud playing and oud players like Anouar Brahem and Rabih Abou-Khalil.  Also bands like Niyaz and Vas that incorporate arabic music with other styles are really interesting to me.  I bought a guitar-lute last year to try and incorporate some of those sounds into my own music, which already uses arabic handdrumming and middle-eastern scales.  The guitar-lute has a lute body and strings, but uses 6 strings that are tuned like a regular guitar.

I ran across a guy years ago named Neil Haverstick who did some interesting things with microtonal guitars.  Here's an example of a piece of his on a guitar that has 19 semitones to the octave (rather than the 12 you hear in Western music).  I also have recordings of him playing on guitar with 34 (!) semitones to the octave.



btw, that microtonal guitar in the OP is pretty wild, thanks for sharing!


Edited by HolyMoly - April 24 2012 at 13:26