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It was manufactured in 1956 and the serial number is 12073. Clapton purchased the guitar at London's Sound City while touring with Cream on 7 May 1967 for US$400 and used it for both concert and studio. The guitar appeared on his debut album Eric Clapton where it can be seen on the cover. Its most noteworthy usage can be heard on the Layla and ...
The ten string extended-range classical guitar, with fully chromatic, sympathetic string resonance was conceived in 1963 [a] by Narciso Yepes, and constructed by José Ramírez [III]. [2] This instrument is sometimes referred to as the "modern" 10-string guitar [b] (or the "Yepes guitar" [3]) to differentiate it from ten-stringed harp guitars ...
Nine-string guitar. A nine-string guitar is a guitar with nine strings instead of the commonly used six strings. Such guitars are not as common as the six-string variety, but are used by guitarists to modify the sound or expand the range of their instrument.
Ibanez RG 770 guitar action. In the guitar and similar instruments, the action is the distance between the fretboard and the string, which determines how easy it is to sound notes when pressure is applied with the fingertips. Generally a low action is considered to be more playable, due to the lower amount of pressure needed to press the string ...
Vibrato systems for guitar. A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings. It adds vibrato to the sound by changing the tension of the strings, typically at the bridge or tailpiece of an electric guitar using a controlling lever, which is alternately referred to as a whammy bar, vibrato ...
The Rickenbacker Electro A-22, nicknamed the " Frying Pan " is the first electric lap steel guitar, also widely considered to be the first commercially successful electric guitar. Developed in 1931/1932, it received its patent in August 1937. [1] A previous attempt, the Stromberg company ‘s transducer-based "Stromberg Electro", was introduced ...
The eight-string bass guitar was invented by electrical engineer and musician Eric Krackow, who had played with Al Kooper's early band, The Aristo-Cats, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It bothered Eric that 50% of the quartet would be tied up with the guitar doubling the bass line while playing tunes like Jimi Hendrix 's "Manic Depression".
