Anyway.......

[sandy]

So when I was looking around for Don Rathbone stuff for his birthday, I came upon this,which lists as one of the previous bands he played in....and this amazing looking contraption they called a guitar?!?! I can see why it may not have caught on.....Has anyone seen a guitar so weird ??!!😂Wonder what it sounded like?!

www.macclesfield-live.co.uk/incoming/gallery/rare-pipe-guitar-strum-thing-2571734


www.alamy.com/apr-04-1960-to-get-better-sound-guitar-master-arnold-hoyer-arnold-image69363674.html

[Mevrouw Bee]

Would love to hear what that sounds like!

[thejanitor]

I could totally see Tony playing one of those and it sitting nicely in his collection next to his electric sitar! 😂

[johnt]

I suppose an updated version of that pipe guitar thing could be Brian Chatton's keyboard 'guitar' which he played on the Hollies single from the 1980s 'Take My Love And Run'.

[gee]

I think they were called a 'Key-tar' or something like that

- I recall they were all the rage back in the 80's for a time

Patrick Moraz also used one in The Moody Blues on John Lodge song 'Rock and Roll Over You' in 1986

- seen here in rare poor VHS tape quality fan filmed footage live in Denver on 2 September 1988

ironic but now cut out of many old 80's era group photos and regarded as just a one time  'mere sideman' (but back then FULL credited group member) Patrick Moraz is about as popular in Moodies circles as Terry Sylvester is in Hollies eyes now...!

- isn't life strange ? 

[JamesT]

Oct 8, 2020 18:20:43 GMT sandy said:

So when I was looking around for Don Rathbone stuff for his birthday, I came upon this,which lists as one of the previous bands he played in....and this amazing looking contraption they called a guitar?!?! I can see why it may not have caught on.....Has anyone seen a guitar so weird ??!!😂Wonder what it sounded like?!

www.macclesfield-live.co.uk/incoming/gallery/rare-pipe-guitar-strum-thing-2571734


www.alamy.com/apr-04-1960-to-get-better-sound-guitar-master-arnold-hoyer-arnold-image69363674.html

guitarz.blogspot.com/2009/10/hoyer-fantastik.html

uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2011/05/randy-bachman-collects-hoyer-guitars_24.html

Can't seem to find any videos, but think it may have sounded a bit like a non-metallic resonator guitar (whatever the heck that'd sound like!)