24 String keyhead?

[Matthew Murray]

I was looking on ebay and I came across a 24 string key head that looks like a sho bud style head. Just wondering if anyone has seen it before.

[Matthew Murray]

Here is the link

https://www.ebay.com/itm/327054172241?_ ... R8qKur-gZw

[Dennis Montgomery]

I'd love to hear the story of the 24 string PSG that this was attached to Maybe it was tuned to some kind of open chord and was strummed rather than picking individual strings?

[Sam Inglis]

I wonder if someone had the idea of making a pedal steel with double courses of strings, like a 12-string guitar?

I can't see how that would work, though, as the change would only ever be in tune for one of the two strings in an octave pair.

[Jerry Overstreet]

Bill Stafford had a single neck 20 course string Excel pedal steel at the ISGC one year. It was keyless though. I asked how it was tuned and he said chromatics. I didn't ask for details but I assume is was sort of like a piano or the Alkire thing.

He told me he was delivering it either to someone or shipping it, I don't recall exactly, but it was not his.

That 24 string guitar must have been a mile long!

[Mark Perrodin]

reminds me of this 16 stringer owned by BMuller.

[Dennis Montgomery]

I wonder if someone had the idea of making a pedal steel with double courses of strings, like a 12-string guitar?

That was my 1st thought as well, then I noticed the string guide appears to have the 24 strings spaced equally not in close pairs...quite the mystery!