7 String Guitar History
Sep 3, 2009 7 string
The first 7 string guitar was the Russian guitar. It was created by Andreas O. Sichra (1772-1861) who also wrote seventy-five compositions for the 7 string guitar. These guitars were typically tuned to an Open G chord: DBGDBGD.
In 1938, legendary jazz guitarist George Van Eps commissioned Epi Stathopoulo, president of the Epiphone guitar company, to [...]
