It's always very interesting to see someone approach an instrument in an unorthodox way. Without the video, I would have guessed that this was some kind of gut-string guitar or an acoustic baritone guitar. I saw a youtube amp demo where a fellow was playing an electric baritone guitar. I thought "you don't see that every day!".
Years ago, I played in a band with a female drummer. She was a good drummer/singer, but one day she brought her guitar to practice and played some SRV tunes. She was left-handed, and flipped the guitar upside down like Hendrix, but she didn't re-string the guitar, just played it upside-down. So every chord shape and scale had to be learned by ear, as she was out of step with the rest of the universe. But the result sounded like a conventional guitarist playing blues.
This musician had some interesting tuning system by the nut; I've never seen that before. Maybe it's a standard customization in the world of solo bass players of melancholic, acoustically tinged music (got that last bit from his website).
Thanks for sharing
Randy
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