It's still a hindrance for playing rhythm, but I definitely prefer a scalloped neck for single-note work - it gives me much more control over the notes." The fretboards are scalloped - which is something I never did to my Strats back in the Scorpions. I can still get the half-steps, but I have to jump over to another string to get them. On another, I space the frets out in whole-tone increments. So one of my guitars is actually fretless at the top. When you have more than 30 frets, it gets very awkward to play in the upper register because the frets are so close together. "The 7-strings have a low B and a range of over five-and-a-half octaves. "There are five Sky guitars in existence, - three 6-strings and two 7-strings," Uli Jon Roth says. The next step was to add more range in the bass end, so I came up with the idea of a seven-string guitar."Įxcerpt from the April 2001 issue of Guitar Player magazine: My pickups (Mega-Wing) are made by John Oram, who figured out how to make a pickup that provides full-sounding tone and great sustain in the guitar's highest range. I didn't want to lose the warm sound of the neck pickup, so we mounted the pickup under the fretboard," he continues. On my current Sky guitar, the frets above the 24th fret are placed in whole tones because it is too difficult to play above there with the frets placed so closely together. I had the builder put as many frets on the neck as he possibly could. I wanted more range, so I came up with a body shaped like a teardrop, but it wasn't visually appealing, so I added an S shape to the teardrop to give it more balance. I questioned everything that had come before and tried to improve on it. Here is what Uli had to say about his Sky Guitar: "Back when I was with the Scorpions, a guitar builder in Brighton offered to make me my own guitar any way I would like, and I thought, 'What a concept!'. The September 2000 issue of Young Guitar magazine shows five different Sky Guitars: Sky I, Sky II "Purple", Sky III "Emperor", Sky IV "Mighty Wing", and Sky V "Destiny". The guitars named Mighty Wing and Destiny each have 7 strings while the first three have 6 strings. Later versions of the Sky Guitar overcame the problem of the higher register frets becoming too narrow by widening the frets by whole steps for the highest notes. The first Sky Guitar (used on the album Beyond the Astral Skies) has 30 frets. To be able to emulate the high notes of a violin, all of the Sky Guitars contain extra frets. Uli Jon Roth has had five Sky guitars constructed by a British luthier Andreas Demetriou. The major element which has allowed Uli Jon Roth to pursue his unique blend of classical and rock music is the Sky Guitar.
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