when I first found it, there were two short scale lengths offered, but they seem to have dropped one of them recently. Still, it is offered as a 6 or 12 string, and it is also available as a part of a doublenecked instrument, along with a standard length neck. Pretty cool, especially in the red sunburst. I'd love one of these, but my days of buying $4200 guitars is gone.
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A friend of mine just commissioned a Veillette 5 string short scale bass, low E to high C. He has several custom (hugely expensive) Alembics, but he's pretty much only playing the Veillette these days. They are pretty great instruments I hear.
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remember the Robin Octave electrics from the 80s?
they might be a 6 string equivalent of this (tuned like standard 12th fret up) that can be found for cheap.
Last time I saw one on eBay it went for $599.
Mitch Easter makes use of one in this song as the main guitar part, doubled with what sounds like maybe a Nashville-tuned acoustic... live it was pretty awesome sounding.
My daughter Kaki King has one. Here's a recent video interview she did for MusicRadar where she discusses and plays several of her stage guitars, beginning with the Gryphon 12:
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