does anybody know where i might find a 10 string acoustic...

[altiris]

Another view of the same instrument. The strings going down through the headstock are sympathetic strings that drone with the instrument.

I see five strings going on the finger board. but where do the rest go? they look like they go to the back side.

 

[Light]

Six go to the fingerboard, like any other guitar. The other 12 on the main peghead run through a channel in the neck, and act as sympathetic strings, similar to the the strings which run under the frets on a Sitar. The other extra strings are just harp strings.



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[IronFlippy]

I suppose you could make your own. You'd need a different scale for bass and guitar strings, so two bridges. I'm just worried about that much tension on one neck.

 

[Treeline]

He had one at Heldsberg last year which was, for all practical purposes, mad of paper machie. I kid you not. He was using wood glue for the resin, instead of plaster, but it was recycled newspaper and wood glue (at least, for the back and sides).

I'm probably just WAY too hidebound for my own good, but I didn't get it.



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Probably was making a point the way Antonio Torres is said to have done with his papier machie guitar.

 

[Light]

I suppose you could make your own. You'd need a different scale for bass and guitar strings, so two bridges. I'm just worried about that much tension on one neck.

In order to tune the low ones like a bass, you would want a longer scale on them, but there are a lot of ways to achive it. I, for one, would not consider two bridges. Bridge placement on an acoustic is rather important, and I just don't see any way of doing that so it would work. A better option is a Ralph Novax Fan Fret Fingerboard (try saying that ten times fast). Then, you can still (kind of) do barre chords on it. That is what I did with my eight string, plus I also added two frets the went past the nut on the three low strings (kind of like on those Kubiki basses, or on the uprights I always see in orchestras these days.


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Probably was making a point the way Antonio Torres is said to have done with his papier machie guitar.

No, it was another one of those things he thinks up in his "dream states." That's how he came up with the sympathetic string thing in the first place, and is also how he came up with that body design (he had a dream about a flying chicken). He's a perfectly nice guy, and his workmanship is great, but I just don't get it.



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