Lotus Guitar

The guitar was developed in collaboration with the jazz guitarist Max Clouth and is the predecessor of the electric Lotus guitar.

The new generation of the Lotus Guitar has a partly quarter tone fretboard for nylon strings and a fretless metallic neck for steel strings.

6 sympathetic steel string run through the bridge, fretboard and over a Yawari bridge, to create a Sitar like sound.
They are attached behind the headplate.

Additional string muter for the sympathetic strings.

The guitar has an active amplification:
RMC-pickups for the two necks and a mini-humbucker for the sympathetic strings

Lotus 1 had, additional to the 11 playing string on the both necks,  12 sympathic strings running across the guitar top, who can optionally be muted with a lever in the soundhole. They run over a Jovari bridge, to produce a overtone-rich “buzzing” sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments. The tuners for the sympathic strings are placed in the upper left side.

The second neck is fretless and the string tension very low to imitate the sound of an Arabic oud.

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