Aunque para mi, la Red Special siempre será la mejor, estuve muy tentado en pillarme una réplica Guild pero me niego y siempre tengo la esperanza de que May me regale una suya (sigo soñando, vale)

The Show Must Go On!

The instrument that I used was a little strange, too, and making the switch from electric guitar in mid-stream, was very stressful. I bought it from a friend of mine whose grandfather made fifty of them. It is something like a large mandolin, but no mandolin strings would fit it because the neck was too long. There were eight strings, but I had it tuned like the first four strings of a guitar. The only way to find strings to fit it, was to buy two sets of four-string banjo strings; and the rest is, again, history. And, I still have the instrument. We called it an octachord. I don’t know why, but somebody called it that once, and the name stuck.
http://home.unet.nl/kesteloo/wethepeople.html

pero… por otro lado: ¿será un homenaje/chiste/tributo/ el nombre del inventor del trémolo?