Multi-neck guitar

The unique design of this guitar set is that it consists of several modular elements, that could be separated and combined by a system of dowels and thumbscrews, including an electrical connection.

(Additionally there was a smaller lower-body-section which could be attached to any of the top-sections when they were not in use as part of a double-neck configuration, to complete the shape of a single guitar.

This is a replica of a model built by Wal for Roger Newell of Rick Wakeman's band, the English Rock Ensemble.

This was a 6-string neck tuned an octave higher than the standard guitar, that both extended the range of the instrument, and allowed Maphis to play mandolin-like sounds.

[6] In 2011, the National Guitar Museum unveiled the "Rock Ock", which it calls the world’s largest fully playable multi-necked stringed instrument.

Hans Reichel crafted a series of third bridge guitars with two necks on both sides of the body.

Solmania is an Osaka-based noise music band known for making their own experimental electric guitars out of spare parts.

The guitars usually take an extremely bizarre form, utilizing unconventional body shapes, extra necks, strings and pickups in unusual places, and various extraneous gadgets such as microphones.

Many of those who have played double neck guitars report that the instruments are heavy and awkward,[8][9][10] but this can be managed with practice.

The bottom neck of Rick Nielsen's famous five-neck Hamer guitar is barely reachable by a person of average stature holding the instrument in a normal standing playing position, and it's hard to see how that neck could be played with any facility with both arms extended to their limit just to reach it.

In 2008, Macari's Music of London commissioned a six-neck guitar ("the beast"),[11] similar in design to Nielsen's five-neck.

As of 2012[update], the most necks placed on a single guitar is 12, apparently first achieved in 2002 by Japanese artist Yoshihiko Satoh.