Gibson EDS-1275
| Gibson EDS-1275 (/ Double 12) | |
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 Gibson EDS-1275, color: Alpine White |
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| General | |
| Type | Double neck electric guitar |
| Manufacturer | Gibson ; United States |
| production | * Double 12: 1958-1962
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| Construction and materials | |
| Scale length | 24.75 inches (628 mm) |
| Body | |
| neck | Set-in maple neck |
| Fingerboard | Rosewood , 20 frets |
| Mechanics | 6 × left, 6 × right and 3 × left, 3 × right; capsuled |
| Footbridge / bridge | Fixed, two-part Tune-O-Matic bridge with tailpiece (2 ×) |
| Pickups and Electronics | |
| Pickups |
4 × humbuckers (2 × 2) |
| Tone control | passive
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The Gibson EDS-1275 is an electric guitar model with a double neck, which was first introduced as a custom-made product in 1958 under the name Double 12 by the American musical instrument manufacturer Gibson Guitar Corporation . The instrument was available with different combinations of the two necks when it was launched . In the most popular version of the two-necked guitar neck model, the top neck has twelve strings and the lower neck has six. The double neck guitar allows a guitarist to switch from a six-string guitar to a twelve-string guitar without interruption while playing , which is an advantage at concerts. The disadvantages compared to guitars with only one neck are the higher weight and the larger body .
history
The first versions of the model in the period from 1958 to 1962 under the name Double 12 was produced, were instruments fully hollow body ( english : Hollow Body ) and two body indentations ( cutaway ) with tapered edges in the frames ( "Florentine “ Cutaway ). A similar shape of the body cut-out is available in the archtop model Gibson ES-175 . In the first years of its production, this double-necked instrument was a special Gibson model that was only made to order. This made it possible to manufacture instruments with individual, almost any neck combinations, including the neck shapes of tenor guitar and mandolin as well as guitar necks with different lengths .
By the end of 1961, Gibson had sold 46 copies of the hollow-body version of the model, which is why early copies of the model are rare today. In 1962, which was Double 12 renamed EDS 1275, the model name used to date, and it was in an instrument with fully solid wood body ( solidbody ) converted. Its body is a wider version of the body shape of the Gibson SG electric guitar model . The solid body EDS-1275 is the better known version of this double neck guitar. Gibson temporarily stopped production of the model in the 1980s and resumed it in the early 1990s.
construction
The first hollow body version of the Gibson EDS-1275 had one from spruce wood carved, arched ceiling . The 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 , the necks of maple wood and the fingerboard of rosewood . The length of both necks in this version is 24.75 inches (629 mm). The solid body guitar is or was produced in four finishes on the body, neck and headstock back: Heritage Cherry (cherry red), Alpine White (alpine white), Tobacco Burst (a sunburst finish with a gradient in brown tones) and Ebony (“ Ebony "/black). The last two paintworks mentioned are no longer available.
The guitar has two volume and two tone controls , a switch with three options for selecting the pickups and a switch with three options for selecting the neck (upper, lower, or both). The fingerboard of both necks has twenty frets , at the height of the fifteenth fret the necks and the body meet. Initially, four double- coil PAF humbuckers - two for each neck - were used as pickups, which were later replaced by the more modern 490R and 498T models.
The Gibson EDS-1275 in music
The EDS-1275 gained particular fame through Jimmy Page , the guitarist of the rock group Led Zeppelin . Page used the double-necked instrument for stage appearances so that, for example, the song Stairway to Heaven didn't have to change guitars. Three other musicians who frequently use the EDS-1275 at concerts are Steve Howe , guitarist for the rock band Yes , Alex Lifeson of Rush, and Charlie Whitney, who played the guitar model throughout his career with the rock band Family . Don Felder ( Eagles ) played it in the recording of Hotel California .
Similar double neck guitars
The EDS-1275 had a sister model called EMS-1235 in the first years of its production . This double-neck model, also known as the double mandolin ("double mandolin"), combined a six-string guitar neck with a standard scale length with a neck with a shortened scale length with six strings one octave higher than the standard guitar tuning E, A, d, g, h, e 'were voted. From 1962 to 1970 Gibson also built the model EBS-1250, a double-necked instrument known as a double bass that combined a six-string electric guitar with a four-string electric bass .
The Gibson subsidiary Epiphone produces replicas of the classic cherry red painted version under the designation G-1275. The Ibanez company also had a replica in its program, but it is no longer manufactured.
literature
- Tony Bacon: Guitar classics - all models and manufacturers . Premio Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-86706-050-9
- Tony Bacon, Dave Hunter: Totally Guitar - the Definitive Guide (Guitar Encyclopedia, English). Backbeat Books, London 2004. ISBN 1-871547-81-4
- George Gruhn & Walter Carter: Electric Guitars and Basses . Presse Projekt Verlag, Bergkirchen 1999. ISBN 3-932275-04-7
Web links
- The Gibson EDS-1275 on the Gibson Official Website (accessed June 7, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The history of the EDS-175 on the Gibson website ( Memento from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b c d Bacon: Totally Guitar - the definitive Guide, p. 415 ff.
- ↑ a b Gruhn / Carter: Electric Guitars and Basses, p. 165 f.
- ↑ a b c Bacon: Guitar Classics, p. 120 f.
- ↑ Replica of the EDS-1275 on the official Epiphone website ( Memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)