Linda Manzer#The Pikasso Guitar

The Pikasso guitar is an experimental guitar model that was built in 1984 by Linda Manzer, a Canadian Gitarrenbauerin, for the U.S. American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.

The guitar has 42 strings, spread over four necks that target at different angles to the hollow body of the instrument. Two of the necks fall out very short and wide, and all bearing a fretless fingerboard and twelve strings. The third neck is similar to a conventional acoustic guitar and is equipped with a fretted fingerboard and with six strings. The instrument has two circular sound holes in the instrument's top and weighs 6.7 kg. The Pikasso is fully equipped with piezoelectric pickups, as well as with a digital pickup at the bridge of the six-string neck, with Metheny 's often used guitar synthesizer ( Synclavier ) can control.

In 1992, Linda Manzer built a second, purely acoustic version of the guitar for Scott Chinery, an extrovert millionaire's son ( 1960-2000 ), who collected over 1,000 guitars and exhibited.