Although multi-neck guitars are quite common today, they are not a modern invention.

Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Renaissance.

Most of their instruments are multi-neck guitars and harp guitars.

A multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks.

This raises the question as to whether some of the larger varieties of multi-neck guitar are even playable as guitars, much less practical in performance situations.

Although playable hybrids with up to eight necks have been produced (see the "Rock Ock", above), five necks would seem to be the practical limit for multi-neck guitars.

Today, the most common type of multi-neck guitar is the double neck guitar, of which the most common version is an electric guitar with twelve strings on the upper neck, while the lower neck has the normal six.