An acoustic Stick?

[prowla]

Anybody in need of one?

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265497063205

[NikNik]

Sting, probably. 

[alyctes]

Wow.  I hope it's exactly what someone really, really needs, but I do have my doubts.

[Hellzero]

10 and more strings are quite common by classical guitars. Check also Turkish music. 😉

[NikNik]

In all seriousness, the late Michael Hedges would have rocked that!

 

[NikNik]

I also play Celtic bouzouki and a few folk-instrument makers do make those extended range instruments. 

 

[NikNik]

The above is based on the 'Nordic Mandola'. Here's one with pin-point capos(!!). And believe me, there is a market for these instruments. 

 

[alyctes]

I'm duly educated.  Thanks

[Grahambythesea]

Goodness, I have enough trouble coping with the 8 strings on my octave Mandola.

[therealting]

Classical guitars can have more strings for extended bass, similar to harp guitars. I have an 8-string short-scale classical guitar handmade by Swedish master luthier Georg Bolin.

 

Here is a 10-string being put to wonderful use.

 

 

[Woodinblack]

Fantastic playing but I would hesitate to say it was putting the instrument to good use as he only used one of the bottom 4 strings once, so there wasn't really anything there that couldn't have been done on 6 strings, or at most 7.

[therealting]

On 26/03/2022 at 11:18, Woodinblack said:

Fantastic playing but I would hesitate to say it was putting the instrument to good use as he only used one of the bottom 4 strings once, so there wasn't really anything there that couldn't have been done on 6 strings, or at most 7.

True, in the course of a recital each piece might only use one or two of the strings. I guess it’s similar to how I might only use the B string on my 5-string basses once in certain songs.

 

This is probably a better example of the sub bass strings being more fully utilised!