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Revision as of 03:00, 2 December 2008 by 129.94.133.166 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Please refrain from advertising your product (the B.C. Rich so-called 10-string guitar) here. First, this is not a place for advertising merchandise. It is an encyclopaedia and as such should contain only entries on people, cencepts etc. that have been proven historically significant. The instruments included under Ten-string guitar (which are actual ten-STRINGed guitars and not COURSED instruments) have been proven historically significant. They have been used by some of the leading, historically significant guitarist-composers of the 19th and 20th centuries and have received compositions from leading, historically significant composers. Second, your product is NOT a Ten-STRING guitar (with the hyphen). Please familiarize yourself with the term "course" - a PAIR of strings that are effectively played as one string. It is not correct to speak, for example, of a 26-string lute, but rather of a 13-COURSE lute (two courses being single and the rest double). Your instrument seems to be a "COURSED" rather than an individually strung ("stringed") instrument. (The term 12-string guitar is incorrect and exists only because ignorance perpetuated it. A so-called 12-string guitar is, in fact, a six-COURSE guitar.) Finally, admitting the so-called "Romantic 10-string guitar" under Ten-string guitar is already a compromise, a compromise acceptable because this instrument is historically significant and needs to be distinguished from the so-called "Modern 10-string guitar". However, even the "Romantic 10-string guitar" should correctly be included under "harp-guitar" as a 10-stringED form of harp-guitar. The term "ten-string guitar" has come to signify a specific instrument: that invented by Narciso Yepes and Jose Ramirez in 1963. Please advertise merchandise like B.C. Rich guitars elsewhere - not in an encyclopaedia - and advertise it as what it is correctly, that is, a coursed instrument and NOT a "ten-string guitar"!
The B.C. Rich guitar with ten strings is NOT a "ten-string guitar". It is a 6-COURSE guitar with four doubled courses. (The courses are played as pairs of strings and not individually.) Seriously, you need to inform yourself about such musicological/organological terms. It is not a "10-string guitar" from a musicological/organological perspective. Musicologists/organologists do NOT speak of "26-string" lutes, but 13-course lutes: two single courses and the rest doubled. It is the same with your guitar.
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