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Here's something in the same vein: the Guscott electric doubleneck violin.
https://www.electricviolinshop.com/g...ck-bronze.html
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Interesting, but I think I'll pass on that one. Something tells me it might not be very comfortable to play.
I suppose Paganini might have tried such a thing if he encountered one, but after a few performances would probably have gone back to just bringing a violin and viola with him.
Someone is building combination 6 string/12 string guitars using the same concept. They are calling them "Busuyi," and are available on Reverb.
What are you building these days?
Why not just use a 5 string violin/viola with one neck?
Interesting, though. thanks
Finally a use for a double chin.
Brings to mind the "turnover" mandolin-uke from Nicholas Turtorro (and some modern versions) that has been discussed here on a few occasions.
The soundhole went all the way through it!
Here is a demo of that from Elderly.
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yes, but how do you play both as a duet?
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Played one of those once; worst-sounding mandolin and ukulele I've played, as I remember, and the neck fretted on both sides was tres uncomfortable in the hand.
Still, almost bought one later, out of sheer "I don't have one of those, and they're rare and weird" impulse. From Scott Freilich's old Top Shelf Music in Buffalo –– I used to get an inventory newsletter from him now and then. Scott ended up selling the Turnover to a member of the Turturro family, who wanted to add it to the family collection of ol' Nicholas's instrumental inventions.
Don't know if I'm sorrier that I didn't get it, than I would have been if I did.
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I had a Turnover uke. I agree 100% with Allen. I would rather have an apple turnover.
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I think you'd be better off just wearing both a mando and a uke with straps and switching when you feel like it.
Wouldn't solve the issue with differences in volume though.
So, Jo, do you think you could build a good-sounding one of these? You certainly have some remarkable skills and imaginative design capabilities. Or do you only make fretted instruments?
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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First of all, thanks for your kind words, I'm flattered. Do I only build fretted instruments? No, not at all, I build a lot of ouds! But bowed instruments, not so often.
I think I'd need to solve the inherent design issues with such an instrument. The Turnover ukes mentioned above are a perfect example of this - worse than either. The only solution I can see at the moment (not looked deeply into it) would be to simply have a double necked instrument with both necks on the one side, and then the non-played strings could also give a cool sympathetic sound. Or maybe removable soundhole covers?
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