I play the 12-string a lot, and have found ways to fit it into a lot of different types of music--It is a natural for playing rhythm for Tex-Mex Polka music, with those boomy Bass runs leading into the off-beat chords--and, as mentioned above, it is very handy for playing single note melody lines--

I have a few old Gabby Pahinui records--he played amazing slack-key stuff on the 12-string--it seems so natural a sound that I am amazed that it is not the standard instrument for slack-key, and I have a nice arrangement of Aloha Oi that I worked up (not his version, because I could never manage to figure out his secret tuning) in D-down--

Inspired by that, I have a couple standards that I worked up, using the same approach--Over the Rainbow, and Moon River.. I have also worked up some Scandinavian dance melodies and a few other similar things--

I have been meaning to buy a good instrument(to me, the Taylor is the best 12 ever), but never have been able to keep enough money together long enough to find one--