Ibanez reveals crazy three-necked Hydra guitar built for Steve Vai

2022-01-24 18:47:15

Five years in development and set to debut on Vai's upcoming Inviolate album, the Hydra's single body is home to a 12-string guitar with a part fretted, part fretless neck, a seven-string guitar with whammy bar and coil tap and a four-string short-scale bass guitar featuring a funky headless neck that's unfretted along the whole of the upper part and fretted below. Oh, and there's also 13-string sympathetic harp at the back.

https://newatlas.com/music/ibanez-hydra-guitar-steve-vai/

https://youtu.be/rBRZR_sdDXw

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Re: Ibanez reveals crazy three-necked Hydra guitar built for Steve Vai

Reply #1 – 2022-01-24 19:25:02

Oh, but harp guitars ....


To the right, the 42-string "Pikasso", played by Pat Metheny on several albums.

Someone just had to commission the same Linda Manzer to do more strings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbEJjuJJzhg

But this is cute:

Re: Ibanez reveals crazy three-necked Hydra guitar built for Steve Vai

Reply #2 – 2022-01-24 19:47:54

Reminds me of something from Anamusic.

Re: Ibanez reveals crazy three-necked Hydra guitar built for Steve Vai

Reply #3 – 2022-01-24 20:28:49

It's crazy, but I do like older knobs and switches.