Just a question I have always wanted to know the answer to.... and apologies if this is ignorance on my part, but I am a non player of anything musical, just a major fan of guitar music and someone who has always had musically talented friends, whose skills make me jealous..
I think I have seen what appears to me so many different types of setup on twin/double neck (I think that is the terms used) guitars, from 12 strings on one neck with 6 on the other, through to what looks like a bass and 'normal' variation.
I can understand why one might have say a bass and normal guitar then because of the ability to jump from say lead to bass without having to stop and change guitars, but with guitars that have similar looking duplicate necks I was wondering why? Is it a look or is it a set up thing? Or a performance type of thing where it can extend the range of notes / sounds possible? Do you use both necks simultaneously? Often I see players using a twin neck but only using one of the necks.
In my head I am thinking of analogies in motor racing terms, and the best I can come up with is where in Moto GP the riders have two bikes they can use for a race, ie a dry start turns wet and the riders return their bikes with dry tyres and setups to pitlane leaving immediately on a waiting warmed up ready to go bike with wet tyres and settings.
Or the second neck is like a 'T' or Spare car used to be in F1, where a driver could be involved in a red flag incident and run back to pitlane to restart in the spare car, or the T car may have a different setup variation. Or of course in US racing I understand the NASCAR guys have a different chassis for short / long ovals and again for road tracks.
So yeah, my question is really why / what advantages / reasons surround the use / preference by some of a twin neck set up?
Or anything relevant / interesting re there use and popularity. I know I have seen them in varying degrees for most of my years listening to music (1960's to present day) but are they something spawned in the mid 20th century, when the acid was better? Or something with far more evolutionary a history? I always used to think of most music variations seeming to evolve from more tribal origins, so maybe the twin neck stemmed from those influences. Or is is just a look, more than physical properties and wider options?
Again, apologies for any display of ignorance here in my post, and sorry to hijack the thread Eivind, Erwin and Toni.
(although I think it is relevant since it is relative to guitars similar to those pictured already in the thread, and owned / played by you guys.
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