Guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter has been around guitars all his life; his mother
used to repair them and after he graduated from Berkeley High School, Hunter's
fledgling guitar style was honed through being tutored by the legendary Joe
Satriani. He moved to Paris where he worked for a short time as a busker and on
his return to the US began to experiment with what became his trademark
instrument - the seven string guitar. He had previously used an eight string but
found that his small hands made it difficult to play and so he did away with the
redundant string retuning all the str...