Fender Custom Shop® David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocaster®, Black
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For many years, guitarists have clamored for and indulged in much wishful thinking about one guitar in particular—a David Gilmour signature model Stratocaster® based on David Gilmour’s famous “Black Strat.” Now, at long last, they're getting their wish.
In a most eagerly awaited musical event, the Fender Custom Shop® and David Gilmour are making available just such an instrument on Sept. 22, 2008—the David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocaster® guitar—which coincided with the release of David Gilmour’s three-disc Live in Gdansk CD/DVD set. The instrument is based on David Gilmour’s beloved Black Strat and was created by Fender Custom Shop craftsmen to mirror the look, sound and feel of the original instrument.
David Gilmour’s original black Stratocaster has become the stuff of legend among guitarists and discerning Pink Floyd fans. Heavily modified and experimented on over the decades—often by David Gilmour himself—the guitar became a cornerstone of Pink Floyd’s surreally psychedelic sound as soon as David Gilmour got it, and it was featured prominently on seminal chart-topping albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979), in addition to David Gilmour’s acclaimed solo albums David Gilmour (1978), About Face (1983) and On An Island (2006).
David Gilmour bought the stock original at Manny’s Music in New York in May 1970, in time to use it on Pink Floyd’s fifth album, Atom Heart Mother. It quickly became his main guitar onstage and in the studio, and, famously, he and longtime guitar tech Phil Taylor were constantly modifying it and experimenting with its neck, hardware and electronics. The black guitar acquired a black pickguard in summer 1974, thus assuming its darkest and most famous incarnation, plus an enduring nickname—the Black Strat.
The Fender Custom Shop worked closely with David Gilmour and Phil Taylor in recreating the Black Strat as the new David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocaster guitar. Main features include an alder body, black over Three-color Sunburst finish for the relic version (which is what we have here, Fender also does a N.O.S. version in straight black nitrocellulose lacquer), a black pickguard, a one-piece straight-grain maple neck, custom pickups and electronics, and a shortened vintage tremolo arm.
Further, the guitar comes with a custom case, an Evidence high-end guitar cable, the Live in Gdansk CD/DVD set and Phil Taylor’s 2007 book about the guitar’s history, The Black Strat., autographed by Phil Taylor.
Sale Price: $4 800.00
Freight cost (contiguous USA): $35.00
Reference #: 3199
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