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Originally Posted by mr dave
as far as the merits of a 12 string go there's no reason you can't play lead on them. you can't really play blues based leads since bending strings becomes a big hassle but you can most definitely take advantage of the natural chorus sound of the instrument for other types of lead passages.
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I suppose so, but I always play lead by feel, not by actually tooling the axe. I feel that the wider neck/octave strings would throw me off, but hey, that's just me. It would be kind of cool to hear the bigger range you could pull off with a 12-string.