Ten-string guitar

Ten-string (10) guitar electric and acoustic guitars
B.C.Rich manufacture a ten-string six-course electric guitar known as the Bich, whose radical shape was specifically designed to allow the machine heads for the four secondary strings to be positioned on the body, avoiding the head-heaviness of many electric twelve-string guitars. However many players bought it for the body shape or electrics and simply removed the extra strings. The company recognized this and released six-string models of the Bich, but ten-string models also remain in production.
There are many varieties of ten-string guitar, including:
* Both electric and acoustic guitars.
* Instruments used principally for classical, folk and popular music.
* Both coursed and uncoursed instruments.
The oldest ten-string guitars are harp guitars, guitars to which extra strings have been added which are never fretted but may be plucked or strummed.