Gittler guitar
The Gittler (also Gittler guitar ) is an experimental electric guitar model, designed and built by Allan Gittler ( 1928-2003 ). The minimalist musical instrument with six strings is mainly made of stainless steel. It differs from conventionally designed guitars in that the usual components such as body, neck, fingerboard and headstock were either omitted or if modified and reduced, that they resemble any other known guitar model. The design is mainly composed of steel rods that form a thin instrument neck with frets and a central mount with dock and electrics. Due to its remote resemblance to a fish skeleton, the instrument is often referred to as " Fishbone Gittler Guitar"; a different label reads simply "The Gittler ".
Gittler presented by the mid- 1970s to the early 80s in New York City 60 instruments of this kind here. A copy of the Gittler guitar was sold to the guitarist Andy Summers, with whom he is to be seen in the music video for the song Synchronicity II of the band The Police.
Later Gittler moved to Hebron in Israel and changed his name to Avraham Bar Rashi. He licensed the instrument design to the company Astron Engineering Enterprises Ltd.. Kiryat Bialik in which established in computer-controlled technology from 1985, about 300 Gittler guitars. Astron Gittler added to the original design, add a small body made of plastic and a movable beam which serves as a knee pad and for attaching a guitar carrying strap. Bar Rashi commented later these products because of their integrated electronics as a " plywood guitars ", which corrupted his original design. However, Astron offered the instruments as carefully prepared by Gittlers originals to make copies of the original, whose integrated in a plastic body components for better handling should be used by musicians. Although this is certainly falsified the minimalist original idea of the Gittler guitar, the products are sound and indistinguishable in their playability of the originals.
It also exist three basses in Gittlerstil produced in the New York stage and carry the serial numbers 1, 2, and 3. Bar Rashi's widow does not recognize these instruments as " Gittler basses " at, but called them merely as a bass in the style of Gittlergitarre.
The Gittler guitar carries six piezo Einzeltonabnehmer. In the New York versions, the signals of the pickups are out with a single cords, Astron Gittlers they are pre-amplified within a plastic body and out through a buzz - jack or individually via a D -sub connector.
The Museum of Modern Art has added one of the New York models of the Gittler guitar in his collection.