Picasso guitar

Picasso guitar in the Museum of Making Music

The picasso guitar is an experimental guitar model that was built in 1984 by Linda Manzer, a Canadian guitar maker , for the American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny .

The instrument has 42 strings , distributed over four necks , which are attached to the hollow body of the instrument at different angles . Two of the necks are very short and wide and each have a fretless fingerboard and twelve strings each. The third neck resembles that of a conventional acoustic guitar and is equipped with a fretboard with frets and six strings. The instrument has two round sound holes in the top of the instrument and weighs 6.7 kilograms. The Pikasso is completely equipped with piezoelectric pickups as well as a digital pickup on the bridge of the six-stringed neck, with which Metheny can control his often used guitar synthesizer ( Synclavier ).

In 1992 Linda Manzer built a second, purely acoustic version of the guitar for Scott Chinery, an extroverted millionaire son (1960-2000) who collected and exhibited over 1,000 guitars.

Web links

• Description of the picasso guitar on Linda Manzer's website (accessed March 4, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Photo of the Pikasso guitar on manzer.com (accessed on March 4, 2012)