Plucked String Instruments · Models

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Jackson Soloist

Electric guitar, Guitar

The Jackson Soloist is one of Jackson's flagship series: a neck-through-body superstrat with a sleek double-cutaway body, deep cutaways for upper-fret access, compound-radius 24-fret fingerboards, high-output humbucking pickups, and double-locking tremolos. It is offered from Pro and Pro Plus models through USA-built versions.

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Ibanez PM series

Guitar

The PM series is a line of Ibanez signature guitars made for jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. They are hollow and semi-hollow archtop electrics designed for the warm, articulate tone Metheny favors.

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Cort MBC-1 Matthew Bellamy Signature

Guitar

The MBC-1 is Matthew Bellamy's signature guitar, the affordable Cort-built version of his Manson signature model, introduced in 2015. The Muse frontman's design is a solid-body electric with a single bridge humbucker and a kill switch for the stuttering effects heard on the band's recordings.

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Ibanez RG2228

Electric guitar · Japan

Ibanez RG2228 is an eight-string RG electric guitar model represented under the Ibanez RG lineage.

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Escopetarra

Guitar

Guitar made from a modified gun

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Ibanez PGM

Guitar

The PGM is the Ibanez signature guitar series of Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X). Built on Ibanez's RG-style superstrat platform, the PGM guitars are best known for their painted-on mock f-holes and fast, performance-oriented specifications.

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Gibson Robert Johnson L-1

Guitar

The Robert Johnson L-1 is a Gibson flat-top acoustic guitar issued as a tribute to blues pioneer Robert Johnson, who was famously photographed holding an L-1. It revives the small-bodied flat-top L-1 design of the early twentieth century.

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GL-1 Guitalele

Guitar

The GL-1 is Yamaha's guitalele, a compact six-string nylon-string instrument that bridges a classical guitar and a ukulele. Roughly the size of a baritone ukulele, it is tuned a fourth higher than a guitar (A-D-G-C-E-A), making it a handy travel instrument.

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Gibson Moderne

Guitar

The Moderne is a radically styled electric guitar Gibson designed in 1957 alongside the Flying V and Explorer as part of its modernistic line. Whether any examples were actually built in the 1950s is debated, which has made it one of Gibson's most legendary guitars; the company finally put the Moderne into production in 1982.

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Fender White Steel

Guitar

The White Steel is a steel guitar made by Fender, an instrument played horizontally with a sliding steel bar rather than fretted by hand. It is part of Fender's line of steel guitars.

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Gibson Dove

Guitar

The Dove is a square-shouldered dreadnought acoustic guitar Gibson introduced in 1962. Known for its maple back and sides and its dove-motif pickguard and bridge, it is one of Gibson's flagship flat-tops and a long-running companion to the Hummingbird.

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Gibson J-160E

Guitar

The J-160E is an early acoustic-electric flat-top guitar Gibson introduced in 1954, combining a round-shouldered acoustic body with a single-coil pickup at the end of the fingerboard. It is famous as a key guitar of the early Beatles, used by both John Lennon and George Harrison.

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Gibson Barney Kessel

Guitar

The Barney Kessel is a hollow-body archtop jazz guitar that Gibson made in the 1960s as a signature model for jazz guitarist Barney Kessel. It features twin sharp Florentine cutaways, two humbucking pickups, and bowtie fingerboard inlays.

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Gibson Blueshawk

Guitar

The Blueshawk is a compact, chambered electric guitar Gibson introduced in the 1990s, related to its Nighthawk model. It uses single-coil-sized Blues 90 pickups and a Vari-tone-style rotary tone selector, giving it a lighter body and a more vintage, bluesy voice than a typical Gibson.

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ESP Ron Wood

Guitar

The Ron Wood is an ESP signature electric guitar named after Ronnie Wood, guitarist of the Rolling Stones (and previously the Faces and the Jeff Beck Group). It was produced by ESP as part of its artist signature range.

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ESP F-50

Guitar

The F-50 is an entry-level electric guitar in ESP's LTD F series. The F shape is an aggressive, sharply pointed offset body popular in metal, and the F-50 brings that design to the affordable end of ESP's range as a solid-body electric.

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Clavinet

Keyboard

The Clavinet is an electromechanical keyboard instrument made by Hohner. Pressing a key presses a string against an anvil and magnetic pickups amplify the sound, producing a bright, percussive tone that became a staple of funk and soul, most famously on Stevie Wonder's Superstition. The D6 is the best-known model.