For most people the truth about where Jimi Hendrix got his first guitar, and what kinds of guitars he played during his career is something of a mystery. While he was unquestionably the greatest guitarists of all time, and with its fertile musical mind, perhaps the greatest composers of our generation, or ever for that matter. No disrespect intended, putting Jimi in companies with Bach, Beethoven and the like. True Genius.

The road is described here is what I would be the most accurate, after a lot of research and a little voodoo magic. Realistically, but the mixture boils May leave some people to disagree with me, and I welcome the input.

The evidence and consistency suggest that his first guitar was a cheap acoustic his father gave to him as early as eleven years old. The story goes so that even at a young age of six, his teacher said to his father, Jimi obsesses on a guitar so much that it may be some issues of mental health. Not to discount today’s teachers, but that was a very astute statement at the time.

His first electric guitar music purchased from Myers in Seattle in 1959. Professed to a white, single pickup Supro Ozark. The next axe that Hendrix played was a red pickup Danelectro single Silvertone, nicknamed Betty Jean. In’62, while some gigs with the King Casuals in Tennessee, he traded his Danelectro for a Epiphone Wilshire, had the dual pickups and a glued-in mahogany neck with a solid mahogany body, in contrast to the flash-in Fender Stratocaster Guitar neck.
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