Duesenberg Guitars

Duesenberg is a trademark of the company Göldo Music GmbH headquartered in Hannover, electric guitars, electric basses and music equipment manufactures in the style of Art Deco.

  • 4.1 Wood and neck
  • 4.2 Hardware
  • 4.3 Pickups
  • 4.4 PLEK
  • 6.1 Semi- Acoustic and electric guitars hollowbody
  • 6.2 Solid Body Guitar
  • 6.3 Special models
  • 6.4 Artist Series
  • 6.5 Basses

History

Rockinger Guitar

In 1978, Dieter Gölsdorf in Hanover with Rockinger Guitar a precursor of Duesenberg Guitars. He offered, inter alia, the world's first in kits for electric guitars and invented with the help of Matthias Jabs under the name Rockinger Tru Tune Tremolo first locking trem system in the world, as Edward Van Halen tremolo appeared a little later under license from Kramer Guitars in the USA. Was founded in 1981 with Rockinger USA a distribution company in Asbury Park, New Jersey had its headquarters.

Duesenberg

The Duesenberg mark was used as early as 1986 by Dieter Gölsdorf for futuristic designs of heavy metal guitars. From 1991, the brand was first used in the context of his own company, the Göldo Music GmbH, Hannover. In 1995 Gölsdorf developed a new guitar with the name Star Player. It was a semi-acoustic electric guitar with a flat spruce top, two pickups, a maple neck and numerous applications in the Art Deco style. This guitar was already a preform of Duesenberg later most successful electric guitar, the Star Player TV. With its classic decorative elements and the often unconventional coloring, Duesenberg instruments relate to the architecture of the last guitar 50s and 60s.

In 2000, sales began to develop above average. This is due among other things to the strong media presence of the Japanese Popgröße Sheena Ringo, which always occurred with a surf green Starplayer. Opened in 2004 Duesenberg, a sales office in the United States. The order situation continued to develop positively, allowing the firm in 2011 moved to a larger building on the outskirts of Hanover due to increasing space requirements. The number of international artists playing live Duesenberg, has increased steadily in recent years, so there are to buy some signature models.

Today Duesenberg is a small but world -renowned brand for high-quality solid-body, hollow-body and Vollresonanz-E-Gitarren/Archtops and special models with exceptional look and sound.

Name

The spelling of the name Duesenberg is identical to the automotive brand in the Frederick and August Duesenberg brothers, who in turn was by design and performance the epitome of luxury car in the U.S. in the 1920s.

And even then the cars, the guitars are now often simply called Doozy. The exclamation "it was a doozy! " Or "what a doozy! " Has been the emergence of the Duesenberg Automobile in American slang to an expression of enthusiasm and extravagance. Just as with automobiles, the spelling Duesy found now also in the guitar scene due to the phonetic similarity again.

Legend has it that Ron Wood, guitarist with the Rolling Stones, after he had taken his own signature model Duesenberg out of a suitcase, " Oh what a doozy! " Supposed to have said. This could also be a reason that the instruments are nowadays often known under this name.

Design

" The unmistakable face of Duesenberg guitars manifested in the Art Deco style of headstock, pickguard and hardware, while most body designs are based on old jazz guitar shapes as from the 40s in Germany and the USA in particular by German were produced emigrants. "

The most important design element and also brand of instruments is the three-stage of shapes and symmetries. It is found in almost every part of the guitar - from the top plate, the pickup frame, the pickguard to the Potiknöpfen, the cable jack and even the pickup selector switch - again. Also, the Duesenberg D contains these three steps and in the lower bar.

Indeed, many models of Duesenberg guitars are popular with jazz guitarist traditional semi-acoustic structures. But the guitars with solid body, the so-called Solidbodies follow traditional design. The Art Deco style, which applications and noble and unusual materials uses is combined with Duesenberg with the forms of traditional guitars. Here, find the typical for this direction features such as parallel bands, graded symmetries and prolonged swings application.

The color scheme follows a classic example. In addition to the standard black and white color palette currently includes (2012 ), among others, a translucent orange (Trans - Orange ), a classic blue - green ( Surf Green ), a pastel red ( Fiesta Red ) and provided with glitter particles color finishes ( Blue, Silver and Black Sparkle ) and decorated with mother-of- pearl mosaic finishes (Ice, Blue and Emerald Green Pearl). Traditional finishes such as gold -top, two-tone sunburst, Fire Burst and Vintage Blonde are also available.

Equipment

Wood and neck

In the semi- acoustic models usually comes spruce than traditional ceiling material for use. Back, sides and neck are made in these models made ​​of maple, the wood for back and sides flamed and in the case of the soil usually is bookmatched.

The neck is made on most models from American Hard Rock Maple. Exceptions are the models D -Caster, Dragster, 49er and 52er, where a mahogany neck is installed.

The fingerboard is made from Indian Rosewood and is provided with dot inlays for orientation. Exception in this case only the Artist, 440, Classic and Imperial series and the Signature models Starplayer Chris Whitley and CC John Platania. Every guitar has a scale length of 25.6 " or 650 mm, a fretboard radius of 12 " and a dual-action truss rod, there are jumbo frets and factory own strings with the strength .10 - .50 used.

Hardware

All Duesenberg instruments are equipped with in-house hardware. The designs of this originates from Dieter Gölsdorf. All hardware is nickel plated principle. This is to emphasize the style of guitars, since the components of classical instruments originally nickel plated, and were not like chrome today claims to be. Sit -house Z- tuner to the head plates. These are encapsulated mechanics, in which the string is fed and clipped by the mechanics axis downwards. Thus, the quieting of sharp string ends of the mechanisms is prevented.

The hardware is continuously improved by Duesenberg and flows after completion will be a first in the production of the instruments. So the current version of the tremolo has already been optimized several times in detail and in overall shape, for example.

Pickup

Exclusively in-house developments are built on the instruments also. All pickups feature an open Neusilberkappe.

Currently ( 2012) the company has five pickups in the program which are offered in the neck and bridge version. With the Grand Vintage, the Crunchbucker and the D -Tron humbuckers area is generally covered, the Grand Vintage is a personal interpretation of a classic PAF-style humbuckers, and is installed in most Duesenberg guitars on the web. The Little Toaster Duesenberg has developed a pickup, to commemorate the output to a single coil, but is technically a humbucker. The Domino P90 is a P90 pickup in humbucker format and is installed in many Duesenberg guitars neck.

PLEK

Since January 2009, every instrument in the computer-controlled PLEK Bundabrichtungsmaschine is processed. With an accuracy of 1/100 mm, the individual frets are measured and then dressed by a CNC milling machine. This is to ensure optimum adjustability and playability as well as prevent fret buzz and rattle.

Starplayer

The Star Player TV, often simply called TV, is a semi -acoustic electric guitar with sustain block. The guitar has a vaulted ceiling and floor, on the left side, an F- hole. To use comes in the case of Starplayer than maple wood for neck, back, and sides, and spruce for the top. The guitar has two pickups in the standard version. On the neck is usually a Domino P90 at the bridge a Grand Vintage Humbucker.

On the tremolo versions of the guitar, which was developed by Dieter Gölsdorf Duesenberg Diamond Deluxe Tremola is used. The models are painted according to their execution on the ceiling. The standard models have on the back of a black / gray burst finish, which shine through the maple on the back. The neck, sides, and back of the headstock are painted ( in the standard models ) opaque black. Most models have a simple cream binding on body and neck.

The Star Player TV has evolved over the years the best-selling guitar of the company. This led to the fact that it is offered in various versions and special versions or has been:

List of Duesenberg instruments

Half -and full -acoustic resonance electric guitars

Solid Body Guitars

Special models

Artist Series

Bass

Duesenberg effect devices

It is currently being offered a choice of professional effects units. The products contains the White Drive II (Overdrive ), the Blue Move ( Chorus), the Red Echo II ( Delay), the Green Comp II (compressor), the Violet Trem ( tremolo ) and the Gold Boost ( booster). All effects are hand-wired, analogue and feature a true bypass circuit.

Amplifier by Duesenberg

Just as with the guitars and basses, the design of the guitar amplifier is adapted to the Art Deco style. The amplifiers are hand wired and work with all-tube technique, which is equipped with modern components. There are the so-called Doozy amplifier in two versions:

Famous musicians who play Duesenberg

Types of business entity Plucked string instrument Bass guitar Meliaceae Chromium Numerical control Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo Nacre Mike Campbell (musician) NAMM Show Dobro Baritone guitar Chorus effect Delay (audio effect) Dynamic range compression Eagles (band)
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