{"id":612,"date":"2014-06-16T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T21:52:28","slug":"ever-heard-27-string-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever heard a 27 string guitar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day on the outskirts of\u00a0Nashville, Keith Medley decided that 6 or 12 strings weren&#8217;t enough and decided to design and build a 27 string guitar. As a master guitar builder most of his life, and one day decided to make his masterpiece for himself.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #5b6265;\">\u201cBuilding this guitar turned out to be the easy part,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #439600;\" href=\"http:\/\/keithmedleymusic.com\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith explains on his site<\/a><span style=\"color: #5b6265;\">. \u201cThe hard part has been learning to play it. Through two years of bittersweet struggle between myself and these 27 strings, I determined it would not defeat me but would play the music I heard in my heart.\u201d\u00a0The big trick has been mastering the ability to play\u00a0his creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/49924106\" width=\"849\" height=\"478\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Keith Medley\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He started\u00a0in Nashville playing R&amp;B around town and, of course, country, he then quit the road and devoted his career to guitar building, design and repair.\u00a0He eventually went to work for one of the largest guitar companies in the country building custom guitars, and for a few years also ran his own company\u2014Medley Guitars. \u00a0The big trick has been mastering the ability to play\u00a0his creation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 27-string was designed and built for me to play, I didn&#8217;t build it to sell, or any other ill motive. I am a player. I hear music to play and share as a gift to those who want it. Building is my craft. Playing is my passion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-614\" src=\"http:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2.jpg\" alt=\"27red2\" width=\"825\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-679x451.jpg 679w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-262x174.jpg 262w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-524x348.jpg 524w, https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/27red2-574x381.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an\u00a0amazing instrument but I wouldn&#8217;t want to tune it too often.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:artist:34BZRu0SFo1eEW6KMtnA8i\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/keithmedleycreative\">Keith Medley&#8217;s Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithmedleymusic.com\/\">http:\/\/www.keithmedleymusic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day on the outskirts of\u00a0Nashville, Keith Medley decided that 6 or 12 strings weren&#8217;t enough and decided to design and build a 27 string guitar. As a master guitar builder most of his life, and one day decided to make his masterpiece for himself.\u00a0\u201cBuilding this guitar turned out to be the easy part,\u201d\u00a0Keith explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offbeattenn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}