Seven-string guitar
A seven-string guitar is a guitar with seven strings instead of the usual six. Such guitars are not as common as the six string version, but uses a minority of guitarists them. Since more than 150 years Some types of this instrument are specific to certain cultures, such as the Russian and Brazilian guitar.
In the present day find seven- electric guitars, especially in the metal ( bands like Dream Theater, Morbid Angel) and nu-metal area (eg Limp Bizkit, Korn) use.
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History
In the Renaissance the guitar was generally strung with four pairs of strings. In the Baroque period there were five pairs of strings and it has been used a great variety of moods. During the 18th century guitars popular with six pairs of strings, and after 1800, the current version was with six single strings as standard. This trend depicts the pursuit of the player to extend the range of the instrument. The seven-string guitar is another result of this desire for expansion of the tonal range and has been used for 150 years. The French guitarist Napoleon Coste composed some works with a seven- guitar clearly in mind, which is sometimes supplemented by a free swinging D string on C tuned string.
Construction
Additional strings are usually added to extend the range of the modern six-string guitar for some bass tones. These strings are generally mounted in two different ways: The first and more common way is to broaden the fingerboard so that the free-swinging bass string can be stopped with the left hand. The second method is to let the fingerboard unchanged and instead free to attach strings near the existing bass strings from the fingerboard, as for example, strings of the theorbo or archlute. This elusive bass strings are historically referred to as drone strings.
The Russian guitar
The classical and acoustic seven-string guitar reached Russia in the early 19th century, most likely as a development of Kobza ( a traditional Ukrainian lute) or the baroque lute. In Russia, it is under the name semistrunnaya gitara ( семиструнная гитара ) or simply semistrunka ( семиструнка ) known.
Their invention is attributed to Andrei Sychra, who wrote more than a thousand compositions, seventy-five of which were in turn re-released in the 1840s by Stellovsky and in the 1880s by Gutheil. Some of them were re-released in 1926 in the Soviet Union times.
This type of guitar is called Russian guitar, as it was originally played in Russia and later in the Soviet Union. in the 1970s and 1980s, she was there far better known than the regular six-string guitar, however since disappeared and today only difficult to find.
The Russian guitar is traditionally played without a pick. Instead, the fingers are used for plucking or striking. She is tuned in thirds, in contrast to the Spanish guitar, on an open G major chord (D ', G ', H, D, g, h, d ').
The Brazilian seven-string guitar
The Brazilian seven-string guitar is an acoustic guitar, which is used primarily in choro and samba music. Their origin in Brazil is not clear. The introduction of the instrument into the choro music in the 1930s is generally guitarist Tute ( Artur de Souza Nascimento, 1886-1957 ), attributed to the completed the six-string guitar to a low C string. A special monitoring technology, such as the style of the " Baixaria " counterpoint was developed and refined, especially by Dino 7 Cordas and Raphael Rabello during the 20th century. Luiz Otávio Braga plays a significant role for the Brazilian seven-string guitar as a guitarist as well as a music teacher. The guitar virtuoso Yamandu Costa wearing for some time much to the popularity of the instrument.
The seven- Brazilian guitar is normally tuned like a classical guitar, but with an extra low C below the low E string ( CEADGhe ), but some musicians tune the C on contra -H down, so they have the same atmosphere as a seven- E Guitar reach (H1- EADGBE ).
The seven- Electric Guitars
Hollow-body and semi-acoustic electric guitars
In the U.S., during the 1930s, the jazz guitarist George Van Eps had a seven-string guitar, which was custom-made for him by Epiphone Guitars. The guitar was usually tuned a normal electric guitar with an additional bass string on A basically.
Several jazz guitarists began to use seven- guitars, including Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Ron Eschete, Lenny Breau and John Pizzarelli to Van Eps. The latter is the author of the Foxwoods casino Themes and son of jazz legend Bucky Pizzarelli.
The first seven- electric guitars were built as a hollow body or semi- hollow body, so that the guitar had a central resonance body or a central block with individual resonance chambers on the sides.
The seven- Solid Body Electric Guitar
The first seven- electric guitar which consisted of a solid, in 1990 went with the Steve Vai Signaturemodell by Ibanez in commercial production, the Ibanez Universe. Steve Vai was at this time one hand generally captivated by the number seven, on the other hand - as the classical and jazz guitarists - from the possibilities with the new range, the additional string offered. After initial experiments with a high A, a deep H was added (H1- EADGBE ). At the same time, George Lynch experimented independently with Siebensaiter designs, but then decided against a further development, since there were some problems with the removable pickup system. Vai began touring with Whitesnake and used a prototype of the seven- guitar and then used the guitar for his 1990 release Passion and Warfare, which became a milestone in the history of instrumental rock.
In the early 1990s, some metal guitarists began to use the seven-string guitar ( worth mentioning are John Petrucci of Dream Theater and Trey Azagthoth and Erik Rutan of Morbid Angel). They saw in the instrument the opportunity to play deep riffs without retune, but can also use sounds in the normal range for solos at the same time.
In the late 1990s it came to the revival of the instrument, the seven-string guitar introduced as nu-metal bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit back into rock music. Under heavy use of the seventh string ( usually tuned to low B or A), these bands combined features from the metal music with rap influences. Many guitar companies took on the seven-string guitar in the assortment.
In jazz guitarist area some seven- instruments use with an additional low A-string ( "Jazz tune").
Other seven-string guitar constructions
Springtime
For Laura - Mary Carter of the band Blood Red Shoes Yuri Landman invented in 2008, the Springtime, a seven - triplo electric guitar. The electric guitar is built with three 3- stereophonic rotated pickups and functions much like an e- baritone guitar, electric guitar and electric bouzouki three guitar amps.