Gibson EDS-1275
The Gibson EDS -1275 is an electric guitar model with double neck, which was first presented as a special order in 1958 under the name Double 12 by the U.S. musical instrument manufacturer Gibson Guitar Corporation. The instrument was available with different combinations of the two necks at its launch. In the most common version of the model with two guitar necks of the neck lying above has twelve strings, the lower six. The double neck guitar allows a guitarist to change during the game without interruption of six-string guitar twelve string guitar to a, which is a great advantage especially at concerts. The disadvantages compared to guitars with a neck only are the higher weight and the larger corpus.
History
The first versions of the model that was produced in the period from 1958 to 1962 under the name Double 12 instruments were with completely hollow body (English: Hollow Body) and with two body cuts ( cutaway ) with tapered edges to the sides ( " Florentine " cutaway ). A similar form of the body section is the archtop model Gibson ES -175 available. This double-neck instrument was in its first years of production, a Gibson special model that was only produced to order. This allowed the production of instruments with individual, almost any neck combinations, including the neck forms of tenor guitar and mandolin as well as guitar necks with different scale.
By the end of 1961, Gibson sold 46 copies of the hollow body version of the model, accordingly, seldom are early copies of the model to find nowadays. In 1962, the Double 12 was renamed EDS -1275, the model name used to this day, and it was transformed into an instrument with full solid wood body ( Solid Body ). Their body is in outline a broadened version of the body shape of the guitar model Gibson SG. The Solid Body EDS -1275 is the more familiar version of this double-neck guitar. Gibson stopped production of the model in the 1980s temporarily and took them beginning of the 1990s again.
Construction
The first hollow body version of the Gibson EDS -1275 had a carved spruce wood, vaulted ceiling. Back and sides of the version were made of maple wood. The body of the solid-body version of the EDS -1275 is made of mahogany, maple necks and rosewood fingerboard. The scale length necks of both measures in this version 24.75 inches ( 629 mm ). The solid body guitar is or neck and headstock back was in four finishes of carcase produced: Heritage Cherry ( cherry ), Alpine White ( alpine white ) Tobacco Burst ( a sunburst finish with gradient in shades of brown ) and Ebony ( " Ebony " / black). The latter two finishes are no longer available.
The guitar has two volume and two tone controls, a switch with three options for selecting the pickup and a switch with three options for the selection of the neck ( upper, lower or both). The fingerboard has twenty frets necks of both, at the height of the fifteenth Bunds hit the necks and the body another. Two for each neck - - which were later replaced by the more modern 490R and 498T pickups models as initially four doppelspulige PAF humbuckers were used.
The Gibson EDS -1275 in Music
Special recognition attained the EDS -1275 by Jimmy Page, the guitarist of the rock group Led Zeppelin. Page put the double-neck instrument for stage appearances, for example, the song Stairway to Heaven not having to switch the guitar. In Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same This use is documented. Two other musicians, often employing the EDS -1275 at concerts, are Steve Howe, guitarist for the rock band Yes, and Charlie Whitney, who played the guitar model throughout his career with the rock band Family. Don Felder (Eagles ), she played at the reception of Hotel California.
Similar double-neck guitar
The EDS -1275 had in their first years of production, a sister model called EMS 1235th This also known as Double Mandolin ( " Double Mandolin " ) called double-neck model combined a six string guitar neck with standard scale length with a neck with a shorter scale length, the six strings an octave higher than the standard guitar tuning E, A, d, g, h, were e ' voted. From 1962 to 1970 Gibson also built the model EBS -1250, a process called double bass double-neck instrument, which combined a six-string electric guitar with a four-string bass guitar.
The Gibson subsidiary Epiphone makes replicas of the classic cherry red lacquered version ago under the name G -1275. Also the company Ibanez had a replica of the program, but which is no longer manufactured.