What kind of guitar did Hendrix play?!
Question: What kind of guitar did Hendrix play!?
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Fender Stratocaster
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Hendrix owned and used a variety of guitars during his career!. His guitar of choice however, and the instrument that became most associated with him, was the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat"!. He started playing with Stratocasters in 1966 and thereafter used it almost exclusively for his stage performances and recordings!.
Hendrix's emergence coincided with the lifting of post-war import restrictions (imposed in many British Commonwealth countries), which made the instrument much more available, and after its initial popularizers Buddy Holly and Hank B!. Marvin, Hendrix arguably did more than any other player to make the Stratocaster the biggest-selling electric guitar in history!. The Strat was a very popular guitar in the UK, due to Hank Marvin of The Shadows, a very influential early UK rock guitarist, Many leading guitarists, including Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore and Eric Clapton, also played Stratocasters!. Hendrix bought many Strats and gave some away as gifts!. Some were stolen, and a few were destroyed during his notorious guitar-smashing finales!. Hendrix actually set fire to two of them, the first time on the opening night of his first UK tour!. The only other documented guitar-burning incident was at the Monterey Pop festival, his USA debut appearance as the Jimi Hendrix Experience!. The original sunburst Stratocaster that Hendrix burnt and broke the neck off at the Astoria in 1967, and that he kept as a souvenir, was given to Frank Zappa by a Hendrix roadie at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival!. Zappa assumed it was the one Hendrix had played there!.
A remarkable fact about Hendrix is that he was left-handed, and like most lefties used right-handed guitars, naturally turned upside-down and re-strung for playing left-handed, so that the heavier strings were in their standard position at the top of the neck!.This had an important effect on the sound of his guitar: because of the slant of the Strat's bridge pickup, his lowest string had a bright sound while his highest string had a mellow sound, the opposite of the Stratocaster's intended design!.
Heavy use of the tremolo bar throughout his career caused the drawback of frequent losses in tuning; Hendrix would often ask the audience for a "minute to tune up" several times during the same concert!.
In addition to Fender Stratocasters, Hendrix was also photographed playing Jazzmasters, Duosonics, two different Gibson Flying Vs, a Gibson Les Paul, three Gibson SGs, a Gretsch Corvette he used at the 1967 Curtis Knight sessions and miming with a right strung Fender Jaguar on the "Top Of The Pop's" TV show, as well as several other brands!. Jimi used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on the Dick Cavett show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V!. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he'd painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and "split-diamond" fret markers that were not found on other 60s-era Flying Vs!.
On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for USD$168,000!.
Amplifiers and effects
Hendrix was a catalyst in the development of modern guitar effects pedals!. His high-energy stage act and the high volume at which he played required robust and powerful amplifiers!. For the first few rehearsals he used Vox and Fender amplifiers!. Sitting in with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs!. Along with the Stratocaster, the Marshall stack and amplifiers were crucial in shaping his heavily overdriven sound, enabling him to master the use of feedback as a musical effect!. His use of this brand made it very popular!.
During the Isle of Wight video Hendrix has numerous equipment problems, during "All Along the Watchtower" his wah pedal squeals at a high pitch instead of functioning normally, after struggling with it during a solo Hendrix can be clearly seen to turn toward the camera and his support crew and say "wah wah, get me another wah wah" as the show progresses further pieces of equipment are replaced!. Arbiter Fuzz Face units which were highly inconsistent, and subject to changes in tone due to both temperature and battery conditions!. As Hendrix's recording career progressed he made greater use of customized effects units!. In contrast the first singles and album was made under more basic, low budget conditions with only a basic fuzz pedal and some rudimentary 'Octavia' on Purple Haze!.
Hendrix constantly looked for new guitar effects!. He was one of the first guitarists to move past simple gimmickry and to exploit the full expressive possibilities of electronic effects such as the Arbiter Fuzz Face and wah-wah pedal!. He had a fruitful association with engineer RogerWww@Enter-QA@Com
Hendrix's emergence coincided with the lifting of post-war import restrictions (imposed in many British Commonwealth countries), which made the instrument much more available, and after its initial popularizers Buddy Holly and Hank B!. Marvin, Hendrix arguably did more than any other player to make the Stratocaster the biggest-selling electric guitar in history!. The Strat was a very popular guitar in the UK, due to Hank Marvin of The Shadows, a very influential early UK rock guitarist, Many leading guitarists, including Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore and Eric Clapton, also played Stratocasters!. Hendrix bought many Strats and gave some away as gifts!. Some were stolen, and a few were destroyed during his notorious guitar-smashing finales!. Hendrix actually set fire to two of them, the first time on the opening night of his first UK tour!. The only other documented guitar-burning incident was at the Monterey Pop festival, his USA debut appearance as the Jimi Hendrix Experience!. The original sunburst Stratocaster that Hendrix burnt and broke the neck off at the Astoria in 1967, and that he kept as a souvenir, was given to Frank Zappa by a Hendrix roadie at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival!. Zappa assumed it was the one Hendrix had played there!.
A remarkable fact about Hendrix is that he was left-handed, and like most lefties used right-handed guitars, naturally turned upside-down and re-strung for playing left-handed, so that the heavier strings were in their standard position at the top of the neck!.This had an important effect on the sound of his guitar: because of the slant of the Strat's bridge pickup, his lowest string had a bright sound while his highest string had a mellow sound, the opposite of the Stratocaster's intended design!.
Heavy use of the tremolo bar throughout his career caused the drawback of frequent losses in tuning; Hendrix would often ask the audience for a "minute to tune up" several times during the same concert!.
In addition to Fender Stratocasters, Hendrix was also photographed playing Jazzmasters, Duosonics, two different Gibson Flying Vs, a Gibson Les Paul, three Gibson SGs, a Gretsch Corvette he used at the 1967 Curtis Knight sessions and miming with a right strung Fender Jaguar on the "Top Of The Pop's" TV show, as well as several other brands!. Jimi used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on the Dick Cavett show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V!. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he'd painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and "split-diamond" fret markers that were not found on other 60s-era Flying Vs!.
On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for USD$168,000!.
Amplifiers and effects
Hendrix was a catalyst in the development of modern guitar effects pedals!. His high-energy stage act and the high volume at which he played required robust and powerful amplifiers!. For the first few rehearsals he used Vox and Fender amplifiers!. Sitting in with Cream, Hendrix played through a new range of high-powered guitar amps being made by London drummer turned audio engineer Jim Marshall, and they proved perfect for his needs!. Along with the Stratocaster, the Marshall stack and amplifiers were crucial in shaping his heavily overdriven sound, enabling him to master the use of feedback as a musical effect!. His use of this brand made it very popular!.
During the Isle of Wight video Hendrix has numerous equipment problems, during "All Along the Watchtower" his wah pedal squeals at a high pitch instead of functioning normally, after struggling with it during a solo Hendrix can be clearly seen to turn toward the camera and his support crew and say "wah wah, get me another wah wah" as the show progresses further pieces of equipment are replaced!. Arbiter Fuzz Face units which were highly inconsistent, and subject to changes in tone due to both temperature and battery conditions!. As Hendrix's recording career progressed he made greater use of customized effects units!. In contrast the first singles and album was made under more basic, low budget conditions with only a basic fuzz pedal and some rudimentary 'Octavia' on Purple Haze!.
Hendrix constantly looked for new guitar effects!. He was one of the first guitarists to move past simple gimmickry and to exploit the full expressive possibilities of electronic effects such as the Arbiter Fuzz Face and wah-wah pedal!. He had a fruitful association with engineer RogerWww@Enter-QA@Com
Yeah, what he said!. Hendrix played a right-handed guitar strung backwards and played it left-handed!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
he played an old left handed fender stratocaster that his uncle gave him!. I think it was worth $15 at the time!. Imagine how much it would be worth now!. Www@Enter-QA@Com
he played a white fender stratocaster (a regular right handed one) strung upside-down to accomodate his left-handednessWww@Enter-QA@Com
fender stratocaster but he played it left handed and he had his strings upside down!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
he flipped over a fender strat and played it upside down!.
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Fender Strat strung upside downWww@Enter-QA@Com
Fender Strat (left handed)Www@Enter-QA@Com
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