Five years in development and set to debut on Vai's upcoming Inviolate album, the Hydra's single body is home to a 12-string guitar with a part fretted, part fretless neck, a seven-string guitar with whammy bar and coil tap and a four-string short-scale bass guitar featuring a funky headless neck that's unfretted along the whole of the upper part and fretted below. Oh, and there's also 13-string sympathetic harp at the back.
https://newatlas.com/music/ibanez-hydra-guitar-steve-vai/
https://youtu.be/rBRZR_sdDXw
😂
Oh, but harp guitars ....
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Harp_Guitars_2%2C_Museum_of_Making_Music.jpg)
To the right, the 42-string "Pikasso", played by Pat Metheny on several albums.
Someone just had to commission the same Linda Manzer to do more strings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbEJjuJJzhg
But this is cute:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiwiwXPUgAAnVTv?format=jpg&name=small)
Reminds me of something from Anamusic (https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=anamusic&docid=608032928249546402&mid=1F8671BD8CC0274AFA891F8671BD8CC0274AFA89&view=detail&FORM=VIRE).
It's crazy, but I do like older knobs and switches.