Why on earth did the 12 string guitar come into existence? Where early musicians obsessed with trying to recreate the sound of Pink Floyd’s seminal work “Wish You Were Here?” Not exactly… You might be surprised to find out that that the original reason for the extra strings had little to do with the timbre or interesting tonality of the instrument. No, it was all about volume! You see, the small bodied acoustic guitars of yore really didn’t have much in the way of volume. They were fairly weak f