Seven-string guitar in jazz

[Marcel]

I was allways told that the jazz players in the 20s & 30s started making them (retro). But this was probibly just a old wives tale. Do you know when it originated? Or at least when thet became widespread in Russia?

[mangotango]

The seven string guitar originated in Russia, to my knowledge. If it did not, Russia was where it first saw widespread use.

However, the russian seven string guitar was tuned differently to the seven string used in western music; it was tuned to DGBDGBD, an open tuning.

Ah, the Sevastapol tuning!! Great for that old Tsarist bottleneck boogie from deep down in the Volga Delta, music from the Moujiks............

[TieDyedDevil]

Here's an interesting take on the 7-string by Saul Koll, the luthier who made my guitars:

Koll RE 7 / 6

[Dookychase]

I read in an issue of Just Jazz guitar that Charlie Hunter was going back to 7 string. That was sometime last year.

I don't know if he really went through with it.

[Shadow of the Sun]

It's supposed to have originated in the 18th century in Russia, based on a tuning from a Russian styled theorbo.

[Gabe2099]

it started in russia with a 7 string acoustic guitar, then George Van Eps with the 7 string hollow and semi-hollow "jazz" guitars and 7 string solid body electric guitar entered commercial production with the introduction of Steve Vai's signature model.

Seven-string guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[mikeSF]

[DRS]

You resurrected a 4 year old thread to post that?