Some things I've wondered about before....

If you know the answers, be my guest. Also, add your own questions.

1) The guitar with the record for the most amount of frets

2) The most expensive guitar (highest price paid ever)

3) Fretless guitars in general (saw some dude open for Satriani before who performed completely on a fretless guitar. Anyone know anything about these? pros? cons?)

4) The most amount of strings for a guitar (not including the Chapman Stick or standard 12-string guitars).

5) The oldest electric guitar

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1) A guitar built by a dutch luthier "tyrell" - saw it at the frankfurt music fair last year - 52 (or 56 - not sure anymore) frets - but only 2 octaves per string - this guitar had like 5 frets per fulltone making it possible to play all sorts of exotic and regular scales and different types of tuning temperations.

2) hmm.. AFAIK thats the PRS "Dragon" with 50.000 USD

3) Basically i´ve tried two types of fretless guitars.
Acoustic fretless guitars are very cool. some companies like Godin make those. they play very well and sound great. they use a normal wooden fretboard. And electric fretless guitars like the one Ron Thal uses - they are made by "Vigier" and are called "Surfretter" - they have a metal-fretboard because on a wooden one the thinner strings would fail to have a good sustain. they also play very well. but basically you have to get used to playing fretless since you have to have a good feeling for the right notes.

4) i guess for standard guitars that would be 8 strings with the exception of the "Phalanx" from warr-guitars with 14 strings

5) Bigsby built the first electric guitar in 1928. in 1931 he put it on the market, but noone wanted it. in 1948 leo fender built his Telecaster and that was when the electric guitar made its breakthrough.

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wasn't Eric Claptons strat sold for over 200,000$

Ive seen an acoustic guitar for sale for 50,000$ (US Dollars) and an eletric for 80,000$ (US Dollars) at guitar center in atlanta..

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1. No idea...

2. I think it was one of Jimi Hendrix's old strats.... It was in the Guiness Book of World records...

3. I've never tried fretless, but would love to...

4. Ummm I don't really no about the guitars with many strings, but I have seen a 12 string bass...

5. Already said....

4. i have seen 12 string basses, but they where similar to 12 string guitars, however they have four lots of three strings instead of six lots of two.but i have seen a nine string bass.

^Found pic to go with my above post.
http://www.christianguitar.org/foru...achmentid=17738