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Gibson SG		Topic	Gibson Guitar Corporation	Angus Young	The Gibson SG is a popular model of solid-bodied electric guitar that was introduced in the early 1960s. In 1960, Gibson Les Paul sales were significantly lower than they had been in previous years, so in 1961 the model was given a completely new body style that was thinner and had two sharp cutaway horns that made the upper frets more accessible. The neck was slightly heavy, which made it tilt downwards. The neck joint was also moved up about three frets. It was felt the new design could...
		Guitar		Eric Clapton
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Fender Telecaster		Topic	Fender	Joe Perry	The Fender Telecaster, also known as a Tele, is typically a dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music. Introduced for national distribution as the Broadcaster in the autumn of 1950, it was the first guitar of its kind to be produced on a substantial scale. Its commercial production can be traced as far back as the spring of 1950, when the single-...
Fender Telecaster		Guitar	Fender	Joe Perry
Gibson Les Paul		Topic	Gibson Guitar Corporation	Neil Young	The Gibson Les Paul is a solidbody electric guitar originally developed in the early 1950s. The Les Paul was originally designed by jazz/pop guitarist Les Paul. The Les Paul model was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and pop star, electronics inventor, and accomplished jazz guitarist Les Paul. In 1950, after the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze. In reaction, Gibson Guitar president Ted...
		Guitar		Duane Allman
				Frank Zappa
				Joe Perry
Fender Stratocaster		Topic	Fender	Jeff Beck	The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as a Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed by George Fullerton, Leo Fender and Freddie Tavares in 1954, and manufactured continuously to the present. The Stratocaster has been used by many leading guitarists, and thus can be heard on many historic recordings. Along with the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, and the Fender Telecaster, it is one of the most common and enduring models of electric guitar in the world. The design of the Stratocaster has...
		Guitar		Tommy Castro
		Musical instrument		Billy Corgan
				Stevie Ray Vaughan
				Eric Clapton
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Fender Starcaster		Topic	Fender		The Fender Starcaster was an attempt by the Fender company to enter the semi-hollowbody electric guitar market, which was (and still is) dominated by Gibson's ES-335 and similar designs. The Starcaster of the 1970s and early 80s is not to be confused with the guitars from the recent Starcaster by Fender range, aimed at novice guitarists. The Starcaster was a high quality instrument (designed by Gene Fields) manufactured at a time when Fender's standards had lowered considerably. It was...
Fender Starcaster		Guitar	Fender
Fender Jazzmaster		Topic	Fender		The Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar that was first introduced at the 1958 NAMM Show and was designed as a more upmarket instrument than the Fender Stratocaster, which was originally to replace the Telecaster model. As its name indicates, it was initially marketed at jazz guitarists but was more commonly played by surf rock guitarists in the early 1960s and, more recently, by alternative rock artists. The contoured "offset-waist" body was designed for comfort while playing the guitar in...
Fender Jazzmaster		Guitar	Fender
Gibson ES-335		Topic			The Gibson ES-335 was the world's first commercial semi-hollowbody electric guitar, released by Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1958. It is neither hollow nor solid; instead, a solid wood block runs through the center of its body, but the sides are hollow, sporting violin-style f-holes. The "ES" in the ES series stand for "electric spanish." Before 1952 Gibson produced only hollow body guitars, which are prone to feedback when amplified loudly. That year saw the introduction of their first solid...
Gibson ES-335		Guitar
Gibson EDS-1275		Topic		Claudio Sanchez	The Gibson EDS-1275 is a doubleneck Gibson electric guitar introduced in 1958 as a special-order custom instrument. The original models, produced between 1958 and 1962, were basically twin-necked hollow-body instruments, with dual cutaways similar to the ES-175; these models are quite rare. In 1962, the EDS-1275 was changed to a solid-body design resembling the SG model; this version of the doubleneck is the most common and the best-known among players and collectors. It is interesting to...
Gibson EDS-1275		Guitar		Claudio Sanchez
Fender Jaguar		Topic	Fender	Paul Banks	The Fender Jaguar is an electric guitar that was introduced in 1962. It is difficult to ascertain whether the designers of the Jaguar had intended the instrument to be used for Surf music or if it was a further attempt to break into the Jazz guitar market (as was the case with its predecessor the Jazzmaster). However, the Jaguar quickly caught on in the emerging surf music scene, joining the Jazzmaster as the guitars most associated with the style. They both became popular again in the 1990s...
Fender Jaguar		Guitar	Fender	Paul Banks
Fender Jag-Stang		Topic	Fender	Kurt Cobain	The Fender Jag-Stang is an electric guitar that is a hybrid of two Fender electric guitar: a Fender Jaguar and a Fender Mustang. Kurt Cobain, of the Grunge band Nirvana, suggested his idea for an instrument with combined aspects of both instruments to Fender, resulting in two left-handed prototypes built by former Custom Shop Master Builder Larry L. Brooks, only one of which was ever played by Cobain himself. It has been said that the instrument needed much tweaking before Cobain would have...
Fender Jag-Stang		Guitar	Fender	Kurt Cobain
Fender Precision Bass		Topic	Fender	Bill Black	The Fender Precision Bass (sometimes shortened to the "P-Bass") is an electric bass guitar, and was the first widely-available model of the instrument. It was designed by Leo Fender and brought to market in 1951. Although the Precision Bass was first presented some 15 years after the original solid body, fretless, guitar-style electric bass produced by the Audiovox Manufacturing Company in Seattle, Washington, the Precision Bass was the first mass-produced electric bass. In its stock...
Fender Precision Bass		Guitar	Fender	Bill Black
Fender Jazz Bass		Topic	Fender		The Jazz Bass (or J-Bass) was the second model of electric bass guitar created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange with less emphasis on the fundamental harmonic. Because of this, many bass players who want to be more "forward" in the mix (including smaller bands such as power trio) prefer the Jazz Bass. First introduced in 1960 as the "Deluxe Model", it was marketed as a stablemate to the Jazzmaster guitar which...
Fender Jazz Bass		Guitar	Fender
Fender Cyclone		Topic	Fender		The Fender Cyclone and Fender Cyclone II were a series of electric guitar made by Fender. Introduced in late 1997, the Cyclone body is similarly styled to the Mustang but with a significantly different specification. The body of the Cyclone is a quarter of an inch thicker than the body of a Mustang and is made of alder, whereas contemporary Mustang reissues were made of basswood (though vintage and current reissues of the Mustang are poplar). The Cyclone has a scale of 24.75 inches, the same...
Fender Cyclone		Guitar	Fender
Gibson Firebird		Topic			The Gibson Firebird is a solid-body electric guitar manufactured by Gibson from 1963 to the present. The Gibson Guitar Corporation released several new styles of guitars during the 1950s to combat Fender's successful and modern guitars, such as the Stratocaster and the Jazzmaster. Fender's range of colors, shapes and multiple pickups were endorsed by many notable guitarists of the 1960s. Gibson guitars seemed old-fashioned by comparison, and this impression among guitar buyers (coupled with...
Gibson Firebird		Guitar
Fender Telecaster Deluxe		Topic	Fender		The Fender Telecaster Deluxe is a solid-body electric guitar originally produced from 1972 to 1981, and since re-issued by Fender in 2004 as the '72 Telecaster Deluxe. The popularity of heavy rock in the late 1960s led Fender to re-think its strategy of exclusively using single-coil pickups, as they were not perceived as being suitable for the thick sound and extended sustain favoured by heavy rock guitarists using double-coil humbucking pickups. Consequently, Fender hired former Gibson...
Fender Telecaster Deluxe		Guitar	Fender
Gibson Flying V		Topic		Tom Petty	The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson in 1958. Gibson first manufactured prototypes of the guitar in 1957. They were made of korina wood, a trademarked name for limba, a wood similar to but lighter than mahogany. (Korina, originally spelled 'Korena', is the name that has been given to certain types of African Mahogany.) This Flying V, along with the Futura (Explorer) and, initially, the Moderne, made up a line of modernist guitars designed by Gibson's then...
		Guitar		Paul Banks
		Guitar		Claudio Sanchez
Squier Jagmaster		Topic			The Squier Jagmaster is an electric guitar marketed by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation under their Squier budget brand. It is based on the design of the classic Fender Jazzmaster and Fender Jaguar, but with several significant differences reflecting the tastes of modern guitarists, including much simplified electronics, Duncan-Designed humbucking pickups, a standard Stratocaster-style tremolo bridge, and on Vista Series versions a short-scale, 24" neck (22 Frets). The first...
Squier Jagmaster		Guitar
KKV		Topic			The KKV (Kerry King V) is an electric guitar designed by Kerry King of Slayer for B.C. Rich guitars. Its shape was heavily influenced by the Gibson Flying V, hence the V in the name. B.C. Rich also offers a more expensive signature version that is exactly like King's and a cheaper tremolo-less Metal Master version. The guitar design is somewhat reminiscent of Kerry's tribal tattoo. The KKV has not always been exclusive to BC Rich. The guitar was briefy made by the ESP guitar corperation...
KKV		Guitar
Gibson Explorer		Topic		Claudio Sanchez	The Gibson Explorer (now marketed as X-plorer and Explorer Pro) is a type of electric guitar. The Explorer made its debut in 1958 under the name Futura. It offered a radical, "futuristic" body design, much like its sibling, the Flying V. Its initial run was unsuccessful and it was discontinued in 1959. In 1975, Gibson began reissuing the Explorer after other guitar companies had success selling similar designs. Gibson produced fewer than 100 Explorers during the 1958 run of the original Korina...
Gibson Explorer		Guitar		Claudio Sanchez
Eric Clapton Stratocaster		Topic			The Eric Clapton Stratocaster is the signature model electric guitar of English guitarist Eric Clapton, and was the first signature model guitar ever released by Fender. In 1981, Fender had informally discussed the idea of a signature model Telecaster with the legendary James Burton; however, this would not come to be until 1990. Jeff Beck had also been offered a signature model Stratocaster, but he rejected the idea until 1991, when he opted for an Artist Series signature guitar based on the...
Eric Clapton Stratocaster		Guitar
Jackson Kelly		Topic			The Kelly is an electric guitar made by Jackson for Australian heavy metal group Heaven lead guitarist Brad Kelly. It looks like a sleek Gibson Explorer and is used mostly by metal musicians. The KBX, also known as the Kelly Bass, is a 4-string electric bass featuring two active Basslines humbucker and a 3-band EQ preamp. The Kelly's distinct body shape gives unique tone and sustain and also puts the neck further out than other guitars making it very easy to play high up the neck. The neck...
Jackson Kelly		Guitar
Fender Toronado		Topic	Fender		The Toronado is an electric guitar made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Introduced at NAMM in 1998, it is a part of the "Deluxe Series" Fenders which are produced in Mexico, generally to higher specs than most "Standard" models. The Toronado features two humbucking pickups, rosewood fretboard, and popular design includes a tortoise-shell pickguard and four chrome knobs (x2 volume, x2 tone). The headstock features the famous Fender "spaghetti" logo, and sports vintage style "kluson"...
Fender Toronado		Guitar	Fender
Fender Esquire		Topic	Fender		The Fender Esquire is a solid body electric guitar manufactured by Fender, and was the first guitar sold by Fender in 1950. Shortly after its introduction, the two-pickup version of the Esquire was first renamed Broadcaster, and then Telecaster, while the one-pickup version retained the Esquire name. Although the one-pickup Esquire was manufactured first, it is now generally regarded as a variant of the more popular Telecaster. The first prototype for the Esquire (and the later Telecaster)...
Fender Esquire		Guitar	Fender
Fender Lead Series		Topic	Fender		Fender Lead Series electric guitars were produced by Fender and included the Lead I, Lead II and Lead III models. Manufactured from 1979 to 1982 by Fender under the direction of Greg Wilson and John Page from the Fender Custom Shop.The Lead Series have elements of the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Telecaster in their design.The Lead Series have a body that is slightly smaller and a slightly different shape than a regular Stratocaster and have a Stratocaster like neck (and headstock) and have...
Fender Lead Series		Guitar	Fender
Squier '51		Topic			The Squier '51 is an electric guitar made by Squier, a subsidiary of Fender. The '51 is notable for being one of the few original designs made by Squier, which normally manufactures less expensive authorized copies of Fender's popular guitars and bass guitar. The '51 combines aspects of several of Fender's best-known instruments. The body and neck pickup resemble that of the Fender Stratocaster, while the single-ply pickguard and the control plate is borrowed from the original incarnation of...
Squier '51		Guitar
Fender Mustang Bass		Topic	Fender		The Fender Mustang Bass is an electric bass guitar model produced by Fender. Two variants, the Musicmaster Bass and the Bronco Bass, have also been produced from time to time using the same body and neck shape. Introduced in 1966 as a companion to Fender's shorter-scaled, 2-pickup Fender Mustang guitars, the Mustang Bass was the last original bass designed by Leo Fender before his departure from the company in 1970. The Mustang Bass has a short 30" scale and a single split pickup (similar to...
Fender Mustang Bass		Guitar	Fender
Gibson ES-175		Topic		Pat Metheny	The Gibson ES-175 is one of the most famous jazz guitar in history. It is a 24 3/4" scale full hollow body guitar with a trapeze tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge. It is currently still in production. The ES-175 debuted in 1949, as Gibson's mid-level laminate top alternative to the L5. It was also the first Gibson electric to feature a stylish Florentine cutaway. Its first incarnation had one single-coil pickup (a P-90) in the neck position, and a carved rosewood bridge. In 1953, the ES-175D,...
Gibson ES-175		Guitar		Pat Metheny
Ibanez Universe		Topic			The Ibanez Universe is the world's first modern, commercial seven-string electric guitar, developed by Steve Vai and manufactured by Ibanez. The Universe is a seven-string version of the Ibanez JEM series, Vai's signature model. It slightly differs from the JEM due to the absence of a "monkey grip" cut-out handle on the body. However, it should be noted that it is not the first seven-string guitar. Alex Gregory developed a seven-string Fender before the Universe was designed. The first...
Ibanez Universe		Guitar
Gibson Sonex		Topic			The Sonex guitars were a range of budget Gibsons launched in 1980. They were made from a material called Resonwood, and manufactured with Multi-phonic body construction. There were four models: Deluxe, Standard, Custom and Artist. They were an entry level instrument, replacing the Marauder and S-1 guitars. Like these two instruments, the Sonex took its styling from the Les Paul guitars that had been popular for the previous decades, but using Resonwood instead of mahogany, bolt-on necks...
Gibson Sonex		Guitar
Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom		Topic		Claudio Sanchez	Not to be confused with the Fender Jaguar Bass or the Fender Jaguar Baritone Special HH. Fender's Jaguar Baritone Custom electric guitar, also known as Fender Jaguar Bass VI Custom is more or less a combination of the Fender Jaguar electric guitar and the Fender Bass VI electric bass guitar: Its pickup configuration and switching setup is identical to the Jaguar, but uses the same heavier string gauges as the Bass VI (25-35-45-55-75-95), with a 28.5" scale-length neck (as opposed to the Bass...
Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom		Guitar		Claudio Sanchez