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The Pikasso Guitar, or Pikasso I, is a custom made harp guitar created by Canadian luthier Linda Manzer^[1]. This 42-string guitar with three necks has been popularized by jazz artist Pat Metheny and can be heard on his song "Into the Dream" and on the albums Quartet, Imaginary Day, Jim Hall & Pat Metheny, Trio->Live, and Metheny Mehldau Quartet (The Sound of Water), his 2007 second collaboration with pianist Brad Mehldau. The guitar can also be seen on the Speaking of Now Live and Imaginary Day DVDs, and at the oddmusic.com web site. Metheny has also used the guitar in his guest appearances on other artist's albums and on a Jazz TV show, Legends of Jazz, where he referred to it simply as 42-string guitar. When he was asked if wasn't that guitar called Pikasso, he said "...the woman that makes it calls it the Pikasso Guitar."

Its name is ostensibly derived from its likeness in appearance to the cubist works of Pablo Picasso. Seen on stage, the Pikasso is about the size of a school-band drum.

1. ^ http://www.manzer.com/guitars/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=24

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