Unique guitars: The Octo

I was looking for unusual guitar in Internet and I came across an info about custom instrument for Albanian musician Liburn Jupolli from Lahtela Guitar Craft.

Title is "The Octo". It would seem an ordinary eight-string. But to him eight strings seemed small. As already noted, fretboard contains 43 frets. But this does't mean that on fretboard almost 4 octaves on 1 string. He divided from 1 to 7 fret 2 more frets into 3 microtones. From 7 to 12 there is a division of another 1 fret into 2 microtons (that is, the usual quarter of tone). And from 12 there is a standard halftone division.

And you think he stopped here? No! He put one of the models of Ken Armstrong's pickups and now each string has its own sensor and its own output. That is, we have in addition a stereo guitar. In this case, you can say an octaphonic guitar - each string, he sets his own effects and plays on different amps.



Total: 8 strings, 43 frets, 8 outputs, 8 switches. It's true experimenter. The video perfectly shows how it can be used.