Strandberg recently made musical prodigy Jacob Collier a custom 5-string guitar, and now it seems that we might get a production version of it. All we know so far is that Strandberg posted two photos of the guitar on their Instagram alongside the caption “Stay tuned next week.”
So what the hell is up with a guitar missing a string? Well for starters, it’s tuned D-A-E-A-D, so it still covers a lot of harmonic ground. Ola Strandberg previously touched on seeing another one of Collier’s 5-string guitars in an interview with Guitar World, saying “Jacob took us on a tour of the stage and his setup, and showed us his custom-made Taylor acoustic five-string, which he is very fond of. He was curious to know whether it would be remotely possible to make a five-string Strandberg.”
Collier added: “The first guitar I ever owned and fell in love with was a four-string Tenor guitar tuned in fifths like a mandolin one octave lower – G D A E ascending. The feeling of this under my fingers became a deeply strong magnet for my music world. It really clicked when I tuned the highest string down a tone to a D (G D A D) as it unlocked some of my 4ths-based language that was native to me as a bass player before that.”
So stay tuned! And you can check out more of Collier explaining his love of the 5-string guitar in an interview with Paul Davids below.
