You call it a Picasso guitar. From a review at http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=27442
Certainly the use of the Picasso guitar for "The Sound of Water" is an even more obvious display of the multi-dimensional musical mind of Metheny. The forty-eight string instrument seemed less of a gimmick than a practical tool to enable the musician (who helped create and design it (with Toronto luthier Linda Manzer) to bring a concept to fruition. On Dec 19, 2007, at 12:22 PM, G. Crona wrote: > Whatchamacallit? > > Harp-psaltery-bass? > Harp-bass? > Multistring-guitar? > Stringochordion? > Ego-booster? > 21st century lute? > Metheny's folly? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
