Jimmy Bryant's

Stratosphere Guitar


Jimmy Bryant, guitar picker extraordinaire and musical partner of steel guitar whiz Speedy West, had a double neck guitar created in the Fifties. One neck was a regular guitar tuning, and the other "Stratosphere" neck was, as I understand it, a twelve string style neck with the doubled strings tuned in parallel fourths.

The resulting sound of the Stratosphere Guitar gives the impression of two hellacious guitarists picking insane harmonies!

The tune "Stratosphere Boogie"
is the primary example I know of.
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