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Post by cynical1 on Jan 21, 2023 10:49:47 GMT -5
I was perfectly happy searching the Internet for ideas to steal for a project on the bench...then I came across this thing:  According to the article on notreble.com, this is from the mind of: "Japanese luthier Kio Okawa of the well-named KIO Extraordinary String Instruments Design recently finished this masterpiece, which he named the Waldeinsamkeit. The moniker is a German word that has no direct English translation but is loosely translated as “solitude of the forest.” Okawa’s design itself draws from nature as well as fantasy for a monstrous instrument." "The eleven-string bass has a mahogany neck with a flamed maple top. The bass is tuned in perfect fourths – C#, F#, B, E, A, D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb – with its low C# string having a .266 gauge, which Okawa says can theoretically can produce a very low note of about 17 Hz. Its nine-piece neck is made from nyatoh, walnut, maple, and purpleheart. The neck also has a multi-scale design with an incredible range from 36.5 inches to 25.5 inches, while its ebonol fingerboard has a compound radius of 21.5 inches to 24 inches." The entire article, with the gory spec details can be found here: Bass of the Week: KIO Extraordinary String Instruments Design WaldeinsamkeitIt does sound amazing, though... HTC1 |
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Post by newey on Jan 21, 2023 12:51:57 GMT -5
Very cool, although I have trouble with calling it a "bass guitar", since the scale goes down to 25.5 inches. I'm weak on music theory, but there seems to be several "clefs" in play here. (Bass, alto, treble???)
When I saw the first picture, I imagined this as a stand-up instrument, particularly with the carved feet; I was surprised to then see it played while being held.
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Post by unreg on Jan 28, 2023 13:34:40 GMT -5
That’s very cool! newey, it seems to me that the notes played all fall in the Bass & Tenor range. At least, some songs we’ve sung (I’m a tenor) have some of those notes on the Treble clef, and that reaches my voice’s roof limit (roof limit makes sense, to me, but I just made that up), but I believe the higher notes can be sung by tenors. Maybe the notes seem incredibly high, like alto and soprano, bc the instrument is a Bass and so the frame of reference is limited? |
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Post by pyrroz on Jan 28, 2023 15:57:13 GMT -5
Belonging to this Djent mindset I have seen many guitars like that (by Jared Dines, Steve Terreberry), those are guitars basically, with more bass strings in order to go even lower in frequencies and djent riffs.. All are with fanned frets, variable scale, many are headless.
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Post by reTrEaD on Jan 30, 2023 8:28:37 GMT -5
Very cool, although I have trouble with calling it a "bass guitar", since the scale goes down to 25.5 inches. I'm weak on music theory, but there seems to be several "clefs" in play here. (Bass, alto, treble???) That's a reasonable assessment, although the scale length isn't the main issue. This instrument covers an extremely wide spectrum. The open 11th string is more than an octave below the low E on a standard 4-string bass and the open first string is just a semitone below the open first string on a standard 6-string guitar. |
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Post by pyrroz on Jan 30, 2023 15:06:10 GMT -5
Very cool, although I have trouble with calling it a "bass guitar", since the scale goes down to 25.5 inches. I'm weak on music theory, but there seems to be several "clefs" in play here. (Bass, alto, treble???) That's a reasonable assessment, although the scale length isn't the main issue. This instrument covers an extremely wide spectrum. The open 11th string is more than an octave below the low E on a standard 4-string bass and the open first string is just a semitone below the open first string on a standard 6-string guitar.
and having 24 frets, last fret first string can go one full tone higher than a normal strat.
btw have you seen Vai's new Ibanez? (Toy?)
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