Re: droning questions

[David Beardsley <xouoxno@virtulink.com>]

whiteoakstudios wrote:
> 
> I was surprised to see a number of guitars with sympathetic strings in 
>Tin
> Pan Alley, (London) the other day. Didn't get any manufacturer's names 
>but
> there was a thing calling itself an electric sitar with 12 sympathetic
> strings under a Perspex cover and a sitar type bridge. Tuning of the 
>extra
> strings was done with a sort of autoharp/dulcimer key. Another type of
> guitar ran the sympathetic strings at an angle to the main guitar strings
> and under them, where they intersected. It had a protruding pseudo-neck
> coming out at an angle along which the sympathetic strings ran. That was
> about £300.

Sounds like Jerry Jones again.


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