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Its interesting to see how the fretboard extends into the headstock on the bass side. Not sure how "playable" some of those frets are up there with out reaching around from the top instead of the typical hand position playing across the tuning pegs. When I've seen those harp/guitar hybrids, I assume most of those strings are just tuned for a bass drone effect.
Nice work on your guitar too. Does the off-axis soundhole have any specific intonation purpose or is it just an artistic choice? My gut would tell me that volume of air in/out is what would count, and not the orientation of that hole, but I could also think of theories on why it might have an effect too. Aesthetically, it counters the tilted bridge and adds to the assymetry of the fanned frets. It is also echoed in the headstock shape and the cutaway. Very thoughtful design.
yeah they are just bass drones I think. I've never seen him fret them. I think that guitar is mostly for playing Theorbo/Archlute kinda stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUcGD4rRRc
And thank you! I just started taking the idea of asymmetry and running with it. It was inspired by the Gary Southwell A Series guitar, I set out to make a copy but then just started adding more asymmetric elements to it (7 strings being one of them). As far as the acoustic qualities of the soundhole, I can't really say. It sounds quite good and is fun to play. I definitely need to play it every day to keep up with the extra string and haven't been practicing as much as I'd like but I really love the sound.
This fall I'll be finishing a few more traditional classical guitars and I will be doing some acoustic testing on all of them to understand them better.
Do you by any chance remember if there was a few seconds of silence with only that noise in the recording, if you listened to the whole thing? It would be easy to then isolate and remove it. I'd post James cleaned up here.
Hiss is gone...might be better-might be worse...
Sounds pretty great. I'll have to go back and listen to the original, maybe there's a bit of transient/artifact stuff but it's all pretty clear.
So old school to get an actual MP3, I'll have to put it on my original ipod!
@paulmcevoy75 If you'd like the same with the whole concert, let me know.