Here is a strange one, Fender 9 string acoustic.

[Tiltsta]

Looks like an 'aftermarket' mod to me, but I don't follow acoustics very closely. Looks like a 12 on top, and a 6 string on the bottom. Strange.

http://miami.craigslist.org/brw/msg/3807638193.html

 

[Punchy]

Interesting idea, but yeah, seems aftermarket to me.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

:hmm:

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Actually, back in the early 80s, the nine-string acoustic (and acoustic-electric) were a passing fad, and were also made by Ventura, Yamaha, Conklin, Emerald Guitars, Halo, Ibanez, Oni, Stambaugh Designs, Shamray, Sherman, Siggery, Strictly7, Etherial, and Alvarez/Alvarez-Yairi (most of the ones I've seen were by Alvarez/Alvarez-Yairi, so I'm guessing their offerings were the best liked of the lot.

Also, Taylor made a short run, to celebrate their 35th Anniversary.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

No thanks. I'll go 6 or 12, but that doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

No thanks. I'll go 6 or 12, but that doesn't appeal to me.

My feelings, exactly.

Apparently, many folks felt the same way, as the only folks I've ever seen/heard of using a 9-string much was Michael Martin Murphey (who used one for a few songs per concert) and Big Joe Williams (who converted 6-stringed guitars and rarely played anything else).

 

[Mark Wein]

Trip out.


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[Terry Allan Hall]

Mississippi blues singer and guitarist Big Joe Williams spent most of his career playing nine-string guitars he had adapted himself from six-string instruments, with the first and second strings doubled in unison and the fourth doubled in octaves] His grave marker reads "King of the Nine-String guitar"

All the commercially made 9-strings I've ever seen doubled the G, B and High E, with the G in octaves.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Found another:

An unusual 9-string guitar in which the G, D & E strings are in pairs (like the G, D & E strings on a 12-string guitar). The back and sides are not common wood or veneer, as can be seen from the pictures. Yamaha does not describe this as one of their guitars, suggesting it is very rare, or that the Internet lore indicating that Yung (or Young) Jin was a distributor who sold custom guitars from Yamaha in the 1970s is accurate. In any case, this guitar has been in a large guitar collection for several years, and it has been played very little; it is excellent/mint condition.

 

[Peeker]

Found another:

An unusual 9-string guitar in which the G, D & E strings are in pairs (like the G, D & E strings on a 12-string guitar). The back and sides are not common wood or veneer, as can be seen from the pictures. Yamaha does not describe this as one of their guitars, suggesting it is very rare, or that the Internet lore indicating that Yung (or Young) Jin was a distributor who sold custom guitars from Yamaha in the 1970s is accurate. In any case, this guitar has been in a large guitar collection for several years, and it has been played very little; it is excellent/mint condition.

\\see, this... this I could totally get behind.
in fact, I'd go so far as to say I think it's a great idea.
the manin thing that drew me to 12s was the chime-like thing for the high strings.