Multi-neck guitar
Videos
A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Renaissance.
A 17th-century multi-neck guitar by Alexandre Voboam.
A Gibson EDS-1275 double neck guitar, with 12 and 6-string neck.
Mike Rutherford of Genesis, circa 1980, playing his custom Shergold guitar in its twelve-string/bass double-necked configuration
Chris Squire of Yes (2003) playing Wal triple-neck bass consisting of 3 double-course guitar, fretted and fretless 4-string basses.
Rick Nielsen
Videos
Richard Alan Nielsen is an American musician who is the lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and leader of the rock band Cheap Trick. He is well-known for his numerous custom-made guitars from Hamer Gu
Multi-neck guitar
…whether some of the larger varieties of multi-neck guitar are even playable as guitars, much less practical in performance situations. The bottom neck of Rick Nielsen's famous five-neck Hamer guitar is barely reachable by a person of average stature holding the instrument in a normal standing playing position, and…
Nielsen performing in Birmingham, AL 2025
Nielsen performing in February, 2011
Nielsen in 1999