10-String arrives at last...

[Svartmetall]

My new toy arrived this morning:

Yay! Finally they sent the right guitar...the setup's fairly dodgy at the moment (not least the very uneven spacing at the nut) and I'm reasonably sure the 7th string shouldn't be a nylon one...but the tone is actually pretty good straight out of the box.

Now all I have to do is learn how to play the bloody thing

 

[Ishan]

no biggy, change the nut (should be somewhat cheap at any luthier's place) and buy a 10 string set online
It looks nice anyway.

 

[arktan]

sweet mother of fuck!
Congrats, dude. And keep those strings on fire

 

[Apophis]

Congrats

 

[Hate]

Thats a pretty sweet instrument, hope it works out well.

 

[angus]

I see based on the look of the string gauges that it's using a Yepes tuning? There are a couple different versions, with the tuning he used in the latest part of his life the most famous and "standard" of them.

I remember reading at one point, though, that he used several different versions of tuning over the years which included higher tunings in the lower 4 strings. I think guys like Gismonti did the same at some point or another. I think it would be weird, though, as generally those are just used as open drones that are tuned up/down for the key.

 

[drawnQ]

dude thats whats up!

 

[perfektus]

Nice!

Change the nut and saddle to bone and you'll get a definite upgrade in tone.

 

[CaptainD00M]

What do you tune a 10 string too?
I'm looking at it but its just not making sense in my head...

Very cool BTW... I just watched Cross Roads and realised for like the 1st time that the Asian woman who plays after Eugene at the Juliard recital has an 8 string.

 

[Svartmetall]

There's some good info about ten-string tunings here: Ten -String Guitar

I'm probably going to go with the Yepes tuning for now...

 

[CaptainD00M]

Cheers, most helpful.
Just for the record things not makig sence in my head is nothing new.

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Thats looks wicked sick, you should post a vid up of you playing something on it, i want to hear it!

 

[TomAwesome]

That's a pretty nice hunk of wood and nylon!

 

[b3n]

That's a monstrous neck! Looks like a lot of fun.

 

[Desecrated]

We can start a club.

Hannabach strings are awesome, and a new nut and saddle is probably a really good idea, having a nut in wood can't be good in the long run.

 

[Shawn]

The neck on that is insane. Nice score!