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.

In 1964, Jimi would play, rhythm guitar for the Isley Brothers. During this nine months gig, he finally got his first Fender guitar, a blond’59 Sonic Duo. He played further with Little Richard in’65, and played a short FENDER JAZZMASTER. However, he moved back to a Dou-Sonic, when he played with Curtis Knight and the Squires. Even if Jimi later in the jazz master.

One point of interest is that none of the appearances he had with the above-mentioned bands lasted very long, because Jimi’s guitar work stolen the show. His incredible guitar skills were noticed immediately by all, has the emphasis from musical icons, he worked for.

Jimi bought his first start of Manny’s Music in New York’66 in the summer. Early on, he would a multitude of CBS Strats with Pali Sander fretboards. While he is in Greenwich Village in Spätsommer’66 und’67 reduced his choices to einem’60 ’s reverse-era Fender Stratocaster Black or white Fender Strats with maple fretboards. What most likely is the reason the Fender Stratocaster guitar is the most important in the history of guitars and music.

From now on, he played Fender Stratocasters with large headstocks. One of his many unusual techniques to play guitar was a right-back or in the left hand position, because obviously Jimi was left. To do this, we must reverse the strings (bone) mother, so that the low E was still in its infancy. My understanding was that he prefers the controls at the top of the guitar. Obviously, he could easily work his magic with the extensive amount of tricks he implemented, partly by, with the volume control knob. Jimi was not much of tone controls or guitar setup. Most of Jimi spent most of his time to change tremolo to do things such as the lower playing field more than usual and create sounds trem otherwise unknown.

Of course, Jim Hendrix had bought, and played a wide selection of guitars in his life. During my fact-finding mission, This is the list of other guitars Jimi most likely in possession and played a Gibson ES-330, Gibson Firebird, a Mosrite electric resonator guitar, a Guild 12-string acoustic, Black Widow Spider acoustic, several Rickenbacker ’s a bass Rick, a double neck Mosrite, Hagstrom 8-string bass (it was played at the Spanish Castle Magic from the Axis: Bold As Love Album ‘,’67 Gibson Flying V, a Corvette Gretsch’67, a left-handed stars Guild fire Deluxe, an electrical Hofner, a 55 Gibson Les Paul, Gibson Dove acoustic, an acoustic Martin,’68 Gibson SG Custom and a black left-handed Flying V. Wow!

It is not surprising that Jimi owned so many guitars. The depth of knowledge and pure unadulterated playing style was not only limited to electric guitars and Stratocasters. Its unique capabilities allowed him to play any guitar with the deep soul jarring vibes, all of it. It would be unrealistic to believe he was limited to a style of guitar. Or for that matter, a kind of music. Jimi ’s interest in music to the world of classical music as well.

Lost too many is the fact that Jimi was one of the best rhythm guitarist at all, most know him for his folk lead and solo guitar, he was also a proficient bass player, too. And last, he was a master on the acoustic guitar with chords in a way unknown to people in this time. This combo of skills and abilities of people produced, will forever be the patron saint of rock guitar.

A long article to read. A true pleasure to receive the information. It turned out that a long way to find the truth. Enjoy it.