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It is also said that Lennon disconnected the middle pickup on the guitar, because he didn’t like hearing the amplified clicks that would occur when he would strike it with his pick. He also replaced the original Kauffman vibrola with a better one made by Bigsby. The first thing he did was replace the Rogan stove knobs with four Hofner teacup style knobs. Soon after purchasing the guitar, Lennon began to make numerous modifications to the original instrument. At least until the 1970s when the company began manufacturing replicas of the Rickenbacker without a sound hole played by John Lennon.
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Rickenbacker 325 models produced after 1958 all included a crescent moon shaped sound hole. Holding his 1958 Rickenbacker 325, pre-refinish. John Lennon at the Star Club in Hamburg, 1962. The lack of a sound hole gives the illusion of the instrument being solid-bodied, and one can assume that Rickenbacker added the sound hole to serve as a visual indicator of it being a hollow-bodied instrument. Lennon’s 1958 Rickenbacker 325 was actually one of the first ones that the company ever made, and was rare for reasons other than the musician who played it, as it was only one of 8 natural finish 325s that the company made in 1958 and it did not include a sound hole, though it was hollow-bodied. For this reason, John Lennon’s first Rickenbacker 325 is nicknamed “Hamburg”. Lennon apparently took a liking to the guitar (the fact that it was American-made likely added to this appeal) and went to purchase one from Steinway’s music store in Hamburg shortly after. The story goes that Lennon and the Beatles had gone to see the jazz artist Toots Thielemans perform while on tour through Hamburg, Germany in 1960, and Toots was playing a Rickenbacker. It was the one that he played during the Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th, 1964, which marked the first time that many Americans had heard of the Beatles, and thus sparked the Beatlemania phenomenon across the country. This is his most famous guitar as it was the one he played during the Beatles’ initial rise to fame.
#Black rickenbacker 325 serial number#
The first Rickenbacker 325 that John Lennon owned was a 1958 Capri model, with a natural finish and a serial number “V81”. Read on to learn about all of John Lennnon’s Rickenbacker guitars.ġ958 Rickenbacker 325, “Hamburg” John Lennon during the Beatles first Ed Sullivan Show appearance, February 9th, 1964. He did play other guitars as well, but he always went back to his trusty Rickenbackers. John Lennon played four different Rickenbacker 325s over the course of his career with the Beatles. The instrument features a hollow body, a C-shaped sound hole (though not Lennon’s, for reasons you’ll soon find out), and an exceptionally short scale that measures only 20 3⁄ 4 inches. He was personally responsible for many of the most popular designs at Rickenbacker, including the 325 model that was used by Lennon. The Rickenbacker 325 was designed by Roger Rossmeisl, who worked at Rickenbacker for eight years prior to being hired by Fender. By the time of the "Damn the Torpedoes" album, his trademark guitar was a RIC 620/12.Some speculate that Rickenbacker would not have become such a successful guitar company without John Lennon and the Beatles While the company had been around since 1931, and are actually credited with being the first company to manufacture an electric guitar, it wasn’t until the Beatles started playing and them and subsequently rose to international fame that the Rickenbacker brand truly took off. In 1965 Petty was sporting a hollow body double bound RIC Model 365 WB guitar in Fireglo. Tom Petty's association with Rickenbacker goes back a long way. There were 807 fire glo models, 6 lefthanded fire glo models, 186 black or Jet Glo models and 1 black left handed model. Each guitar will be accompanied by an individually numbered Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. The Company will manufacture only 1000 of these instruments.
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The instrument is available in Fireglo and Jetglo. A Rickenbacker vintage case is included with each instrument. The neck on the 660/12TP was designed to Petty's demanding standards. Using neck through body construction, this 12-string instrument features "checked" binding, vintage pickups, vintage knobs, gold pickguard and nameplate, vintage keys designed to Rickenbacker specifications, trapeze tailpiece and a 12 saddle bridge. The Tom Petty Limited Edition, Model 660/12TP, is entirely hand made in America from solid "charactered" Eastern Rock Maple with a fully inlaid 21 fret rosewood fingerboard. Serienummer 556 av 1000 tillverkade, med certifikat, nyskick. Rickenbacker 660/12 TOM PETTY Limited Edition.