What is a Harp Guitar? At Retrofret Vintage Guitars

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Extended Range Guitars are still popular today & have found their ways into various genres of music due to what they're capable of playing.

[@Pef273]

Thanks for sharing this information.

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2:26 That's a really cool sound you can get out of a Harp Guitar where the Sub Bass Neck has a fingerboard.

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The 11 String Harp Guitar has a Standard 7 String Neck tuned E to E plus a Low B and there are 4 Open Strings to give you some open notes.

[@jamesrogers5277]

The basic 19th century Russian guitar had 7 strings tuned DBGDBGD - more like a banjo(!)... to which a number of bass strings (as with your Zimmerman) were occasionally added. Its Romantic/classical repertoire was huge (awash with Russian traditional songs); with great composers such as Sychra, Morkov, Sarenko and Alexandrov et al producing extended and virtuosic concert works. The treble strings used for that style were gut (bass were silk wound with wire), the RH technique was the standard European fingerstyle of the period (usually without using nails and with the little finger resting on the soundboard). The LH technique was not standard classical, however, in that the thumb was very often used to fret the lower string (reminiscent of the balalaika). Incredibly and sadly, the whole world of the Russian guitar is largely forgotten today... Should we blame the influence of Segovia and his visits to Russia in the 1920s, perhaps?

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@@jamesrogers5277 The Russian Guitar has been revived & is becoming more popular today

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@@jamesrogers5277 Good news they make 7 String Russian Guitars & they're back

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0:45 These are really a German Concept but this one was actually made in Russia by a German Luthier named Zimmerman who moved to Russia.

[@Mythicgregg]

Great video but just tune please

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Dear santa!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Harp Guitars are a really old idea that came from the Baroque lute