Instruments of Musicians - The Beatles Instruments, List of the Beatles' Instruments, Stevie Ray Vaughan's Musical Instruments, Red Special (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: The Beatles instruments, List of The Beatles' instruments, Stevie Ray Vaughan's musical instruments, Red Special, Rush equipment, ZZ Top equipment, The Who's musical equipment, Frankenstrat, Lucille, John Lennon's musical instruments, Old Black, Miss Daisy, Lady Rose, Hofner 500/1, Duck, Blackie, Tiger, Gretsch 6128, Rickenbacker 325, Gibson J-160E, Brownie, La Marquise, Pearly Gates. Excerpt: The Beatles started out like most other rock and roll bands, employing a standard guitars/bass/drums instrumentation. As their touring days wound down, they became a full-time studio band. Their scope of experimentation grew, as did the palette of sounds. This article attempts to list the instruments used to achieve those results. Not listed are instruments played by the Beatles' session players such as cello, violin, saxophone, trumpet, French horn or the 41-piece orchestra heard on "A Day in the Life." Both John Lennon and George Harrison used the Gibson J-160E, an acoustic guitar with an electric pickup at the base of the fretboard. The resonant character of the full acoustic body, combined with the electric pickup, meant that this guitar was susceptible to feedback, employed to great effect on the intro to "I Feel Fine." Lennon also used a Framus twelve-string acoustic, which can be seen in the movie Help and heard on the title song and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." This twelve-string guitar accounted for audibly richer rhythm guitar parts on songs like these, in comparison to the six-string Gibsons. After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lennon moved on to a D-28 from C. F. Martin & Company (alternating between the J-160E and the D-28 for The White Album) while Harrison upgraded to a Gibson J-200 Jumbo (which Lennon used on "Two of Us" and other acoustic tracks on Let It Be). Lennon primarily used a Rickenba...