I tried my hands on it during our rehearsal last Sunday, and found out that the additional 7th string actually changes the whole experience of playing a CG! It is definitely NOT a case of simply playing a normal 6-stringed guitar, and hitting the 7th when the music demands it. Rather, it involves getting used to a larger fretboard (wider), a different right-hand positioning (since now it feels "weird" to rest your thumb on the lowest string for stability and balance), not to mention becoming 'crossed-eyed' when glancing down at the fretboard/strings - there just seemed to be so many strings all of a sudden! :PP
Anyway, I'm so glad that the Divo has finally gotten his instrument. It has been a long and hard struggle for the rest of us (hahaha!). But yeah - it's done at last: We can now tackle some additional low notes on some of LAGQ's notoriously difficult scores!
See below for Divo's entry on his new instrument (taken from his blog) :
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Haha... my 7-string guitar has finally arrived. Just picked it up yesterday!The sound is pretty decent, the 7-string bass sounds a little like contrabass though. I was running through the notes in "Waltz of the flowers" and suddenly realised that there was a fret extension up to the 22nd fret! High D!
Previously I asked Yudi to help me ask if they made extension up to high C, Yudi got back to me to say that the asturias people don't do it. It was a little disappointing, since I thought I was making the guitar for the quartet, might as well solve all the range problems we encountered in our scores. But hey... I was so surprised to find the extension done nicely and beyond what we needed. Hahaha...
Must thank Shuhann for helping a lot in this... the looking and sourcing for the guitar, the negotiations and everything else. Without his grizzly intervention, I probably would be guitar-less for still quite some time yet.
