[Juggernaut]

Gutierrez Juggernaut "Copperhead"
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Gutierrez Buddha #2 of 4
Brons Basses J-Bass
Fender Strat - Broken
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Washburn Dime 333 - The Mother Of All Dimebag Tributes

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by floydmoline

lol, yeah a mountain dulcimer is not any more complex to play than any other plucked string instrument, but they are modal, not chromatic, which kinda messes with you lol only having certain accidentals, i never could figure out why they didn't just make them chromatic, but i guess most of the "mountain" music which is based on scottish and irish traditional music is mostly modal, but i do have fun playing it i like the drone of it, it's like bag-pipes, but strings instead of wind..... most of my original music on it exploits that lol i just let the low D drone and play melody on the unison strings....... it does have a scottish sound to it.

Well, I climbed up on the shelves and got that thing down, but it only had the name of the company inside the sound-hole. I thought for sure it had some funky-made-up instrument name on it, perhaps it was in an instruction book that we bought with it, but I can't find. Whatever it is, it's funky. It has about four courses of 4 strings each, and then a big batch of courses with 2 strings each. No single strings.

[floydmoline]

is the fret board modal? or chromatic?

[Servant]

5 guitars and a bass for me. ......and I thought I had too many.

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by floydmoline

is the fret board modal? or chromatic?

I don't know whut them big fancy words mean! I mean I think I do (chromatic is like a harmonica that only has the notes in one key, right?) but I prolly couldn't tell by looking at the thing anyhow.

I'll climb up the shelves later and get it down again, iirc it does have the inteneded note for each string printed underneath each string.

[floydmoline]

chromatic is like the guitar (A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#).....
modal is like a mountain dulcimer (D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D) some notes are missing, and on a fretted instrument the frets will be missing too
guitar neck = I I I I I II
mountain dulcimer neck = I I I I I I I

bad examples lol

http://www.dulcimers-plus.com/images...s/100_1171.jpg
http://www.kozmix.org/music/toys/pix/applecreek.jpg

those are mountain dulcimers, notice the goofy fret scale, that is modal

[Brian Krashpad]

Originally Posted by floydmoline

chromatic is like the guitar (A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#).....
modal is like a mountain dulcimer (D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D) some notes are missing, and on a fretted instrument the frets will be missing too
guitar neck = I I I I I II
mountain dulcimer neck = I I I I I I I

bad examples lol

http://www.dulcimers-plus.com/images...s/100_1171.jpg
http://www.kozmix.org/music/toys/pix/applecreek.jpg

those are mountain dulcimers, notice the goofy fret scale, that is modal

Ah, OK, I had it backwards then.

A'ight, I'm climbing up to get it back down off the shelves...

OK, got it.

First course: DAF#D
2nd course: FCAF
3rd course: FBGG
4th course: ECGC

After that come the courses of two strings each, each the same note. There are 15 courses, beginning at a low C and going up to a high C, with no sharps or flats: C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C.

Since it's missing most sharps and flats I guess it's modal? It comes with a little hammer to hit the strings, consisting of a handle, a metal bendy bit, and a little wooden mallet head on the other end.

[Redline68]

How many guitars? More than I actually need. Let's see...

Acoustic: Washburn Dread, A&L 000, Olde Yamaha classical: 3
Electric: LP, SG, Wilshire, Strat, Cyclone, Traveler: 6

Total: 9

[floydmoline]

LOL yeah that is most deffinatly modal, i am curious now, can you take a picture of it? i'm on a mission to figure out what it is lol, all those courses or strings almost sounds like a sitar, they are modal too, since indian scales are very odd when compared to western chromatic music.

[MrSandMan]

Anyone get any new axes lately?