Seven-string guitar 2nd Law" album tour. Dino Cazares uses custom seven-string Ibanez guitars; Christian Olde Wolbers has his own signature Jackson seven-string guitar, Jeff Loomis has a signature model made by Schecter and Stephen Carpenter has several of his own models released by ESP. In the early 2000s, Roger McGuinn (renowned for his skills on the twelve-string guitar and for his long association with The Byrds) worked with C. F. Martin & Company to develop a seven-string folk guitar. McGuinn's guitar (currently being marketed by Martin) is tuned the same as a standard folk guitar with steel strings, but the third (G)
Touch guitar interactions with plectrums and fingers can all be mimicked digitally: in some cases, fret spacing and relationships can also be customized. Touch guitar The touch guitar is a musical instrument of the guitar family which has either been designed or adapted to use a fretboard-tapping playing style. Although "Touch Guitar" was registered as a trademark by musician and instrument designer Markus Reuter in the late 2000s, the term has been used formally or informally for a variety of instruments since the 1950s. The touch-style playing technique has been traced back to a variety of sources and players (including Merle Travis)