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The Gretsch 6120 is a hollow body electric guitar with f-holes, manufactured by Gretsch and first appearing in the mid-1950s with the endorsement of Chet Atkins. It was quickly adopted by rockabilly artists Eddie Cochran , Duane Eddy , and later by Eric Clapton , Brian Setzer , Reverend Horton Heat , and many others.
Gretsch 6120: (used on the Revolver sessions), used for songwriting purposes at his home studio but has been in Lennon's cousin David Birch's hands since 1967. Currently on display at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
John Lennon's Gretsch Guitar This guitar, the Gretsch Double Cutaway 6120, s/n 53940 was owned and played by John Lennon during recordings for the Paperback Writer/Rain single session. It was also used by John during the Revolver sessions which took place in Abbey Road Studios in 1966. A family member of John's was given the guitar by John in 1967.
Gretsch instruments enjoyed market prominence by the 1950s. In 1954, Gretsch began a collaboration with guitarist Chet Atkins to manufacture a line of electric guitars with Atkins' endorsement, resulting in the Gretsch 6120 hollowbody guitar and other later models such as the Country Gentleman. Electric guitars before 1957 used single coil ...
The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch. Gretsch, Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP Guitars, PRS Guitars, Music Man, Danelectro, Schecter, Burns London and many other companies have produced electric baritone guitars since the 1960s, although always in small numbers due to low popularity. [1]
A 1963 Gretsch 6120 Country Gentleman, used by John Lennon on The Beatles' 1966 single "Paperback Writer." [17] Lennon's 1964 Rickenbacker Rose Morris Model 1996, used during The Beatles' 1964 Christmas tour. The Model 1996 series later later became known as "The Beatle Backer" after Rickenbacker's UK distributor, Rose Morris, featured Lennon ...
Toby Fischer lets his 20-year-old truck warm up in the dark. Frost has stuck to the windows — “like concrete,” he says. The ice melts slowly, revealing cracks that span the length of the windshield. He shifts into reverse, and the truck skids over a slick patch before the tires grip the road again.
The instrument was traded for a '58 Gretsch 6120 with Jim Messina, the acting bassist and engineer for Buffalo Springfield (and Young's first solo album in 1969). Aside from replacing the (non-standard as of 1953) stop-tailpiece with a Bigsby B-3 vibrato tailpiece , by 1969 the guitar had changed little from what Messina handed him.