That’s because the M-7 Johnny Marr acoustic is not your typical seven-string. Its seventh string is an octave G, and by doubling up on that G string he has some extra midrange jangle, which can ...

Fender looks set to enter new territory after a prototype seven-string Stratocaster has been unveiled amid talks of “a bigger vision” for the guitar. Through the success of djent and ...

Best 7-string guitars: Our top picks You really don’t need to be a fan of Mark Holcomb’s band, American tech-metal masters Periphery, to appreciate this glorious signature 7-string in the PRS SE ...

The Synyster Gates Custom-7 TR Headless is priced $2,299, and is as radical a signature model we have seen in a while – or since Schecter teamed up with Machine Gun Kelly for the “Razor Blade ...

Seven-string guitars were dominant in Russia from the late 18th century through the 1960s, Timofeyev said. Then the Spanish six-string guitar began to take over and the seven-string lost popularity.

The six-string model has a 24.75” to 26” scale, which means the high E string has a Les Paul length scale and longer scale on the low E, while the seven-string model has a Fender-esque 25.5” scale on ...

Speaking to Guitar World in 2014, the Animals As Leaders maestro recalls the grueling salmon cannery and poop-scooping dog kennel jobs that helped him save for his first Vai signature model, and ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, one of the nation’s preeminent seven-string guitarists, who began his career as a coveted sideman and studio musician before stepping out on his own and forming an acclaimed ...

In fact, he was such an accomplished musician, he wanted to be able to accompany himself on bass as he played the guitar. Toward this end, he designed a seven-string guitar in the late 1930s.

Guitarist and composer Matthew Grasso will be featured in the 17th annual Celebration of the seven-string Guitar. The concert will take place in early July. Specifically, this annual concert — which ...

NIGEL TUFNEL’S AMP went to 11, but his guitar only went to six — strings, that is. But guitarists Justin Lowe and Trent Haldahl in virtuosic metalcore band After the Burial use eight-string ...