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The 'twelve string guitar' is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six string guitar. Essentially, it is a type of guitar with a natural chorus effect due to the subtle differences in string timbre.
The strings are placed in ''courses'' of two strings each that are usually played together. The two strings in each bass course are normally tuned an octave apart, while each pair of strings in the treble courses is tuned in unison. The tuning of the second string in the third course (G) varies: some players use a unison string which is less prone to breakage, others prefer the distinctive high-pitched, bell-like quality an octave string makes in this position.
Some players, either in search of distinctive tone or for ease of playing, will remove some of the doubled strings. For example, removing the higher octave from the three bass courses simplifies playing running bass lines, but keeps the extra treble strings for the full strums.
The tension placed on the instrument by the strings is great, and because of this, 12 string guitars have a reputation for warping after a few years of use. Some twelve-string guitars have non-traditional structural supports to prevent or postpone such a fate, at the expense of appearance and tone. Until recently, twelve-string guitars were nearly universally tuned lower than the traditional EADGBE, to reduce the stresses on the instrument. Lead Belly famously used a low C-tuning, as did Beau on his Dandelion recordings.
Some performers prefer the richness of an open tuning due to its near-orchestral sound. For a very complex plucked-string sound, the 12-string can be set to standard tuning (or possibly an octave lower), then the top one and low two string pairs can be tuned to whole-tone intervals. The usual gamut of guitar tunings are also available.
Many performers who play the twelve-string guitar use an ordinary six-string guitar as their primary instrument, switching to the twelve-string guitar for certain songs that seem to call for a brighter sound.
Because it is substantially more difficult to pluck individual strings on the twelve-string guitar, and almost impossible to bend notes tunefully, the instrument is rarely used for lead musical parts. It is primarily suited to a rhythm, accompaniment, or solo role, and is often used in folk songs and some popular music. Some hard rock and progressive rock musicians use double-necked guitars, which have both six-string and twelve-string components, allowing the guitarist easy transition between different sounds.
The greater number of strings complicates playing, particularly for the plucking (or picking) hand. The gap between the dual-string courses is usually narrower than that between the single-string courses of a conventional six-string guitar, so more precision is required with pick or fingertip when not simply strumming chords. The pairing of thin, easily broken octave strings with larger, stiffer bass strings presents difficulties to the player also, and only a very skilled player can reliably pluck single strings from within a course at any speed (notably the very high octave G string, which is the highest-pitched string on the instrument). Nevertheless, with practice, the twelve-string guitar is not unduly difficult to play. It is, however, generally used in a fairly restricted role which emphasises its strengths: rich ringing, full-bodied chords, and fast, rippling single plucked notes on the twinned strings.
Twelve-string guitars are made in both acoustic and electric form. However, it is the acoustic type that is most common. Use of twelve-string electric guitar almost appears to be cyclical: beginning with Blind Willie McTell in the '20s and '30s, Lead Belly in the '40s, and continuing with Bob Gibson in the '50s and early '60s, performers and Gibson acolytes such as Mike Pender of The Searchers and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, brought it to the fore for a decade, until it fell out of favor and was largely limited to niche use by progressive rockers in the 1970s. The instrument was revived in the 1980s by alternative rockers such as Peter Buck of R.E.M., Marty Willson-Piper of The Church, and Johnny Marr of The Smiths. During the 1990s, its popularity waned again, although it plays a key part in the sound of indie rock acts such as Low and The Decemberists. The most popular electric twelve-string model since the 1960s has been the Rickenbacker 360/12, first popularized by George Harrison. Many double-neck guitars have a twelve-string neck, in order for guitarists to switch between tones during live performances, for example, when playing 'Stairway to Heaven' or 'Hotel California.'
★ Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
★ Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)
★ David Bowie
★ Dagmar Andrtová-Voňková (linked page is Czech language)
★ Mikael Ã…kerfeldt (Opeth)
★ Barbecue Bob (also known as Robert Hicks)
★ David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
★ Alexander Bashlachev
★ Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi)
★ Jon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi)
★ Robbie Basho
★ Steffen Basho-Junghans
★ Brian May (Queen)
★ Freddie Mercury (Queen)
★ Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
★ Beau
★ Jeff Buckley
★ Beck
★ Nuno Bettencourt
★ James Blunt
★ Grahame Bond
★ Zakk Wylde
★ Marshall Brickman
★ Tim Buckley
★ John Butler (John Butler Trio)
★ John Allan Cameron
★ Glen Campbell
★ Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
★ Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)
★ Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
★ Paul Collins
★ David Crosby
★ Bradley Delp (Boston)
★ John Denver
★ Denny Doherty
★ Melissa Etheridge
★ John Fahey
★ John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
★ Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
★ Tony Geballe (solo 12-string CD released on Robert Fripp's DGM label, tuned in B-flat NST) [1]
★ Fred Gerlach
★ Bob Gibson
★ Syd Barrett (ex-Pink Floyd)
★ Tony Banks (Genesis)
★ Steve Hackett (Genesis)
★ George Harrison (The Beatles)
★ Levon Helm (The Band)
★ Jimi Hendrix
★ Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
★ Steve Howe (Yes)
★ Mississippi John Hurt
★ Wayne Hussey (The Mission)
★ Keith Jackson (El Bomb)
★ Leo Kottke
★ Earl Klugh
★ Greg Lake
★ Daniel Lanois
★ Lead Belly
★ John Lennon (The Beatles)
★ Alex Lifeson
★ Gordon Lightfoot
★ Arto Lindsay (DNA)
★ Grant-Lee Phillips
★ Chris Martin (Coldplay)
★ Jeff Martin
★ Chris de Burgh
★ Dave Matthews
★ Mike McCready
★ Rose McDowall
★ Barry McGuire
★ John McLaughlin
★ Ralph McTell - for an example - see Streets of London.
★ Blind Willie McTell
★ Pat Metheny
★ Deron Miller (CKY)
★ Matt Nathanson
★ Dave Navarro
★ Fred Neil
★ Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
★ Krist Novoselic (Nirvana/Sweet 75)
★ Charlie Parr
★ Rob Parker
★ Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance)
★ John Petrucci
★ Tom Petty
★ Anthony Phillips
★ John Phillips
★ Barry Louis Polisar
★ Willy Porter
★ Jimmy Reed
★ John Reilly
★ Happy Rhodes
★ Tao RodrÃguez-Seeger (The Mammals)
★ Mike Rutherford (Genesis)
★ Tom Scholz
★ Dan Seals (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
★ Pete Seeger
★ Tommy Shaw (Styx)
★ Paul Simon
★ Robert Smith (The Cure)
★ Red Sovine
★ Richard Starkey better known as Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
★ Cat Stevens
★ Taylor Swift
★ Ralph Towner (Oregon)
★ Pete Townshend (The Who) [2]
★ Stevie Ray Vaughan
★ Nancy Wilson (Heart)
★ Keller Williams
★ Roger Whittaker
★ Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins)
★ Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
★ Neil Young
★ Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
★ Angus Young (AC/DC)
★ Leisha Hailey (The Murmurs)
★ Jeff Buckley
★ Peter Buck (R.E.M.)
★ Jonny Buckland (Coldplay)
★ Mike Campbell
★ The Edge (U2)
★ Les Fradkin
★ George Harrison (The Beatles)
★ Jimi Hendrix (He also played a twelve stringed acoustic guitar)
★ Wayne Hussey (The Mission)
★ Daniel Johns (Silverchair)
★ Greg Lake
★ John Lennon (The Beatles)
★ Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
★ Jeff Martin
★ Jim/Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)
★ Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
★ Mike Pender (The Searchers)
★ Tom Petty
★ Mike Rutherford played a custom made 12-string/4-string Bass double neck
★ Alan Sparhawk
★ Elliott Smith
★ Peter Watson (The Action)
★ Paul Weller
★ Carl Wilson
★ Marty Willson-Piper
★ Pete Townshend (The Who)
★ Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5, Sonic's Rendezvous Band)
★ Tommy Shaw (Styx)
★ Steve Howe (Yes)
Gibson EDS-1275
★ Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
★ Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)
★ Don Felder (The Eagles)
★ Ace Frehley (KISS)
★ James Hetfield (Metallica)
★ Gordie Johnson (Grady)
★ John5 (Marilyn Manson)
★ Denny Laine (former Wings member)
★ Alex Lifeson (Rush)
★ Jeff Martin
★ John McLaughlin
★ Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, formerly Audioslave)
★ Jimmy Page
★ Fritz Puppel
★ Matthias Röhr
★ Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria)
★ Slash (Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver)
★ Pat Smear (The Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters)
★ Johnny Winter
★ Mike Ward
★ Zakk Wylde
★ Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. Jones played a Vox 12 string electric guitar on various recordings, for example on Mother's Little Helper.
★ Miki Berenyi of Lush
★ Mikael Ã…kerfeldt of Opeth uses the PRS Custom 22/12 guitar for live performances including 'Closure'.
★ David Bowie has used the twelve-string guitar, most notably during his earlier years as seen in the "Five Years" and "Queen Bitch" segments on anthology DVD ''Best of Bowie''. This guitar was well known, due to the lone single coil pickup that lay in the middle of the sound hole and had a clamp shaped headstock
★ Glen Campbell - Used Ovation twelve-strings.[3]
★ Chris Cheney (The Living End) - Used a twelve string to record the solo for "End Of The World", as shown on the band's DVD 'The End'.
★ Near the end of his tenure with The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton was required to, in order to reproduce the harpsichord, use a 12-string guitar while performing "For Your Love" live.
★ Roy Clark sometimes uses an electric 12 string guitar, tuned higher than usual, and played like a mandolin.
★ Jimmy Page - Used a Fender Electric XII for studio use, and a Gibson EDS-1275 for live use, both cases for "Stairway to Heaven".
★ Rik Emmett used an Ibanez doubleneck[4] and a similar Yamaha model following his endorsement deal with the company.
★ Steve Howe (Yes) and Pete Townshend (The Who) - Have used both Rickenbackers and EDS-1275 guitars. Townshend has also used Fender 12-string electric guitars.
★ Nicholas McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand) - Uses an unidentified guitar in the video for "The Fallen".
★ John McLaughlin, Double Rainbow, custom made by Rex Bogue.
Dave Mustaine plays a custom ESP double neck guitar, although he has switched sponcers to Dean Guitars.
★ Michael Nesmith (The Monkees) - played a Gretsch twelve string
★ Rick Nielsen - Has a twelve-string neck on his five-necked Hamer guitar.
★ Krist Novoselic (Sweet 75 formerly Nirvana) - Used a Fender 12 string, old guitar, from the 1950s/1960s, not like the current strat 12 strings.
★ Ashmedi (Melechesh)- 12 string electric, looks like a Les Paul body - no brand.
★ Mike Pender of The Searchers has used the twelve-string guitar, most notably as seen in nearly all of his studio sessions and in the "Needles & Pins" and "Love Potion Number Nine" performances on the 60s oldies reunion DVD ''The British Invasion Returns''.
★ John Petrucci (Dream Theater) - Has a double-necked version of his signature Music Man guitar.
★ Mike Rutherford (Genesis) - Uses a Shergold doubleneck.
★ Nick Valensi (The Strokes) - Has a twelve-string Epiphone Riviera and uses it to perform the song "Electricityscape".
★ Matt Slocum (Sixpence None the Richer) - Uses a Fender Electric XII (as shown in the "Kiss Me" video)
★ Robin Guthrie - Used a Fender Electric XII for numerous Cocteau Twins songs.
★ Pete Townshend - Is seen using a Fender Electric XII in photographs of the ''Tommy'' sessions.
★ Paul Gilbert - Has used a twin neck Ibanez in some cases.
★ Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi uses a Gibson SG twin neck on Wanted Dead or Alive using the 12 string for the iconic intro riff, and the 6 string for the solo.
★ Carl Wilson - Also used 12-string Epiphone Riviera in addition to the Rickenbacker guitar.
★ Dave Mustaine of Megadeth - Uses a Jackson V twin neck on the song Trust, and in the past on In My Darkest Hour, producing a powerful octave main riff, as seen in the live DVD 'Rude Awakening'.
★ John Butler
★ Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother uses a double neck twelve string guitar for the song "White Unicorn."
★ Leon Jones of Alfa9 uses a 12 string (Vox) on the song "For Your Bones"
★ Dave Catching
★ Pat Martino
★ Arto Lindsay of DNA
★ Billy Strange
★ Barry Dean Blackman of The Black
★ Portuguese guitar
★ Cümbüş
★ Guitar
★ Guitarist
★ Lute
★ Lutenist
★ Classical guitar
★ Electric guitar
★ ProfessorString.com Guitar string research
★ History of the 12-string
★ Video: Jimi Hendrix plays 'Hear my Train a-Coming' on the 12-string
★ GuitarSync.com Forums Online resource for acoustic and electric guitar players.
★ Free Upload Website with artist pages for acoustic fingerstyle guitarists on fingerstyle-guitar.com
The 'twelve string guitar' is an acoustic or electric guitar with twelve strings, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six string guitar. Essentially, it is a type of guitar with a natural chorus effect due to the subtle differences in string timbre.
Maton CW80/12
The strings are placed in ''courses'' of two strings each that are usually played together. The two strings in each bass course are normally tuned an octave apart, while each pair of strings in the treble courses is tuned in unison. The tuning of the second string in the third course (G) varies: some players use a unison string which is less prone to breakage, others prefer the distinctive high-pitched, bell-like quality an octave string makes in this position.
Some players, either in search of distinctive tone or for ease of playing, will remove some of the doubled strings. For example, removing the higher octave from the three bass courses simplifies playing running bass lines, but keeps the extra treble strings for the full strums.
The tension placed on the instrument by the strings is great, and because of this, 12 string guitars have a reputation for warping after a few years of use. Some twelve-string guitars have non-traditional structural supports to prevent or postpone such a fate, at the expense of appearance and tone. Until recently, twelve-string guitars were nearly universally tuned lower than the traditional EADGBE, to reduce the stresses on the instrument. Lead Belly famously used a low C-tuning, as did Beau on his Dandelion recordings.
Some performers prefer the richness of an open tuning due to its near-orchestral sound. For a very complex plucked-string sound, the 12-string can be set to standard tuning (or possibly an octave lower), then the top one and low two string pairs can be tuned to whole-tone intervals. The usual gamut of guitar tunings are also available.
Many performers who play the twelve-string guitar use an ordinary six-string guitar as their primary instrument, switching to the twelve-string guitar for certain songs that seem to call for a brighter sound.
Because it is substantially more difficult to pluck individual strings on the twelve-string guitar, and almost impossible to bend notes tunefully, the instrument is rarely used for lead musical parts. It is primarily suited to a rhythm, accompaniment, or solo role, and is often used in folk songs and some popular music. Some hard rock and progressive rock musicians use double-necked guitars, which have both six-string and twelve-string components, allowing the guitarist easy transition between different sounds.
The greater number of strings complicates playing, particularly for the plucking (or picking) hand. The gap between the dual-string courses is usually narrower than that between the single-string courses of a conventional six-string guitar, so more precision is required with pick or fingertip when not simply strumming chords. The pairing of thin, easily broken octave strings with larger, stiffer bass strings presents difficulties to the player also, and only a very skilled player can reliably pluck single strings from within a course at any speed (notably the very high octave G string, which is the highest-pitched string on the instrument). Nevertheless, with practice, the twelve-string guitar is not unduly difficult to play. It is, however, generally used in a fairly restricted role which emphasises its strengths: rich ringing, full-bodied chords, and fast, rippling single plucked notes on the twinned strings.
Twelve-string guitars are made in both acoustic and electric form. However, it is the acoustic type that is most common. Use of twelve-string electric guitar almost appears to be cyclical: beginning with Blind Willie McTell in the '20s and '30s, Lead Belly in the '40s, and continuing with Bob Gibson in the '50s and early '60s, performers and Gibson acolytes such as Mike Pender of The Searchers and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, brought it to the fore for a decade, until it fell out of favor and was largely limited to niche use by progressive rockers in the 1970s. The instrument was revived in the 1980s by alternative rockers such as Peter Buck of R.E.M., Marty Willson-Piper of The Church, and Johnny Marr of The Smiths. During the 1990s, its popularity waned again, although it plays a key part in the sound of indie rock acts such as Low and The Decemberists. The most popular electric twelve-string model since the 1960s has been the Rickenbacker 360/12, first popularized by George Harrison. Many double-neck guitars have a twelve-string neck, in order for guitarists to switch between tones during live performances, for example, when playing 'Stairway to Heaven' or 'Hotel California.'
| Contents |
| Noted twelve-string performers |
| Acoustic |
| Electric |
| Rickenbacker |
| Other |
| Unconfirmed |
| See also |
| External links |
Noted twelve-string performers
Two electric 12 strings, a Shergold Modulator 12 (top) and a Maton Magnetone TB36/12 (bottom); the latter is a copy of the Rickenbacker 360/12
Acoustic
★ Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
★ Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)
★ David Bowie
★ Dagmar Andrtová-Voňková (linked page is Czech language)
★ Mikael Ã…kerfeldt (Opeth)
★ Barbecue Bob (also known as Robert Hicks)
★ David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
★ Alexander Bashlachev
★ Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi)
★ Jon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi)
★ Robbie Basho
★ Steffen Basho-Junghans
★ Brian May (Queen)
★ Freddie Mercury (Queen)
★ Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
★ Beau
★ Jeff Buckley
★ Beck
★ Nuno Bettencourt
★ James Blunt
★ Grahame Bond
★ Zakk Wylde
★ Marshall Brickman
★ Tim Buckley
★ John Butler (John Butler Trio)
★ John Allan Cameron
★ Glen Campbell
★ Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
★ Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)
★ Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
★ Paul Collins
★ David Crosby
★ Bradley Delp (Boston)
★ John Denver
★ Denny Doherty
★ Melissa Etheridge
★ John Fahey
★ John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
★ Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
★ Tony Geballe (solo 12-string CD released on Robert Fripp's DGM label, tuned in B-flat NST) [1]
★ Fred Gerlach
★ Bob Gibson
★ Syd Barrett (ex-Pink Floyd)
★ Tony Banks (Genesis)
★ Steve Hackett (Genesis)
★ George Harrison (The Beatles)
★ Levon Helm (The Band)
★ Jimi Hendrix
★ Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
★ Steve Howe (Yes)
★ Mississippi John Hurt
★ Wayne Hussey (The Mission)
★ Keith Jackson (El Bomb)
★ Leo Kottke
★ Earl Klugh
★ Greg Lake
★ Daniel Lanois
★ Lead Belly
★ John Lennon (The Beatles)
★ Alex Lifeson
★ Gordon Lightfoot
★ Arto Lindsay (DNA)
★ Grant-Lee Phillips
★ Chris Martin (Coldplay)
★ Jeff Martin
★ Chris de Burgh
★ Dave Matthews
★ Mike McCready
★ Rose McDowall
★ Barry McGuire
★ John McLaughlin
★ Ralph McTell - for an example - see Streets of London.
★ Blind Willie McTell
★ Pat Metheny
★ Deron Miller (CKY)
★ Matt Nathanson
★ Dave Navarro
★ Fred Neil
★ Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
★ Krist Novoselic (Nirvana/Sweet 75)
★ Charlie Parr
★ Rob Parker
★ Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance)
★ John Petrucci
★ Tom Petty
★ Anthony Phillips
★ John Phillips
★ Barry Louis Polisar
★ Willy Porter
★ Jimmy Reed
★ John Reilly
★ Happy Rhodes
★ Tao RodrÃguez-Seeger (The Mammals)
★ Mike Rutherford (Genesis)
★ Tom Scholz
★ Dan Seals (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
★ Pete Seeger
★ Tommy Shaw (Styx)
★ Paul Simon
★ Robert Smith (The Cure)
★ Red Sovine
★ Richard Starkey better known as Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
★ Cat Stevens
★ Taylor Swift
★ Ralph Towner (Oregon)
★ Pete Townshend (The Who) [2]
★ Stevie Ray Vaughan
★ Nancy Wilson (Heart)
★ Keller Williams
★ Roger Whittaker
★ Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins)
★ Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
★ Neil Young
★ Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
★ Angus Young (AC/DC)
★ Leisha Hailey (The Murmurs)
Electric
Rickenbacker
★ Jeff Buckley
★ Peter Buck (R.E.M.)
★ Jonny Buckland (Coldplay)
★ Mike Campbell
★ The Edge (U2)
★ Les Fradkin
★ George Harrison (The Beatles)
★ Jimi Hendrix (He also played a twelve stringed acoustic guitar)
★ Wayne Hussey (The Mission)
★ Daniel Johns (Silverchair)
★ Greg Lake
★ John Lennon (The Beatles)
★ Johnny Marr (The Smiths)
★ Jeff Martin
★ Jim/Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)
★ Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
★ Mike Pender (The Searchers)
★ Tom Petty
★ Mike Rutherford played a custom made 12-string/4-string Bass double neck
★ Alan Sparhawk
★ Elliott Smith
★ Peter Watson (The Action)
★ Paul Weller
★ Carl Wilson
★ Marty Willson-Piper
★ Pete Townshend (The Who)
★ Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5, Sonic's Rendezvous Band)
★ Tommy Shaw (Styx)
★ Steve Howe (Yes)
Gibson EDS-1275
★ Mike McCready (Pearl Jam)
★ Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)
★ Don Felder (The Eagles)
★ Ace Frehley (KISS)
★ James Hetfield (Metallica)
★ Gordie Johnson (Grady)
★ John5 (Marilyn Manson)
★ Denny Laine (former Wings member)
★ Alex Lifeson (Rush)
★ Jeff Martin
★ John McLaughlin
★ Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, formerly Audioslave)
★ Jimmy Page
★ Fritz Puppel
★ Matthias Röhr
★ Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria)
★ Slash (Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver)
★ Pat Smear (The Germs/Nirvana/Foo Fighters)
★ Johnny Winter
★ Mike Ward
★ Zakk Wylde
Other
★ Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones. Jones played a Vox 12 string electric guitar on various recordings, for example on Mother's Little Helper.
★ Miki Berenyi of Lush
★ Mikael Ã…kerfeldt of Opeth uses the PRS Custom 22/12 guitar for live performances including 'Closure'.
★ David Bowie has used the twelve-string guitar, most notably during his earlier years as seen in the "Five Years" and "Queen Bitch" segments on anthology DVD ''Best of Bowie''. This guitar was well known, due to the lone single coil pickup that lay in the middle of the sound hole and had a clamp shaped headstock
★ Glen Campbell - Used Ovation twelve-strings.[3]
★ Chris Cheney (The Living End) - Used a twelve string to record the solo for "End Of The World", as shown on the band's DVD 'The End'.
★ Near the end of his tenure with The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton was required to, in order to reproduce the harpsichord, use a 12-string guitar while performing "For Your Love" live.
★ Roy Clark sometimes uses an electric 12 string guitar, tuned higher than usual, and played like a mandolin.
★ Jimmy Page - Used a Fender Electric XII for studio use, and a Gibson EDS-1275 for live use, both cases for "Stairway to Heaven".
★ Rik Emmett used an Ibanez doubleneck[4] and a similar Yamaha model following his endorsement deal with the company.
★ Steve Howe (Yes) and Pete Townshend (The Who) - Have used both Rickenbackers and EDS-1275 guitars. Townshend has also used Fender 12-string electric guitars.
★ Nicholas McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand) - Uses an unidentified guitar in the video for "The Fallen".
★ John McLaughlin, Double Rainbow, custom made by Rex Bogue.
Dave Mustaine plays a custom ESP double neck guitar, although he has switched sponcers to Dean Guitars.
★ Michael Nesmith (The Monkees) - played a Gretsch twelve string
★ Rick Nielsen - Has a twelve-string neck on his five-necked Hamer guitar.
★ Krist Novoselic (Sweet 75 formerly Nirvana) - Used a Fender 12 string, old guitar, from the 1950s/1960s, not like the current strat 12 strings.
★ Ashmedi (Melechesh)- 12 string electric, looks like a Les Paul body - no brand.
★ Mike Pender of The Searchers has used the twelve-string guitar, most notably as seen in nearly all of his studio sessions and in the "Needles & Pins" and "Love Potion Number Nine" performances on the 60s oldies reunion DVD ''The British Invasion Returns''.
★ John Petrucci (Dream Theater) - Has a double-necked version of his signature Music Man guitar.
★ Mike Rutherford (Genesis) - Uses a Shergold doubleneck.
★ Nick Valensi (The Strokes) - Has a twelve-string Epiphone Riviera and uses it to perform the song "Electricityscape".
★ Matt Slocum (Sixpence None the Richer) - Uses a Fender Electric XII (as shown in the "Kiss Me" video)
★ Robin Guthrie - Used a Fender Electric XII for numerous Cocteau Twins songs.
★ Pete Townshend - Is seen using a Fender Electric XII in photographs of the ''Tommy'' sessions.
★ Paul Gilbert - Has used a twin neck Ibanez in some cases.
★ Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi uses a Gibson SG twin neck on Wanted Dead or Alive using the 12 string for the iconic intro riff, and the 6 string for the solo.
★ Carl Wilson - Also used 12-string Epiphone Riviera in addition to the Rickenbacker guitar.
★ Dave Mustaine of Megadeth - Uses a Jackson V twin neck on the song Trust, and in the past on In My Darkest Hour, producing a powerful octave main riff, as seen in the live DVD 'Rude Awakening'.
★ John Butler
★ Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother uses a double neck twelve string guitar for the song "White Unicorn."
★ Leon Jones of Alfa9 uses a 12 string (Vox) on the song "For Your Bones"
Unconfirmed
★ Dave Catching
★ Pat Martino
★ Arto Lindsay of DNA
★ Billy Strange
★ Barry Dean Blackman of The Black
See also
★ Portuguese guitar
★ Cümbüş
★ Guitar
★ Guitarist
★ Lute
★ Lutenist
★ Classical guitar
★ Electric guitar
External links
★ ProfessorString.com Guitar string research
★ History of the 12-string
★ Video: Jimi Hendrix plays 'Hear my Train a-Coming' on the 12-string
★ GuitarSync.com Forums Online resource for acoustic and electric guitar players.
★ Free Upload Website with artist pages for acoustic fingerstyle guitarists on fingerstyle-guitar.com
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