What guitar is this...?
 

http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/lb/images/LBuckNaked.jpg

Just curious.. Though I can see why they used it, and not the Model 1.. :)

It's not a guitar. It's a Coral Electric Sitar. (now made by Jerry Jones)

Jerry Jones Guitars-Coral Electric Sitar

You can hear one prominently in Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" and Steely Dan's "Do It Again".

Cool.. Thank you..! :)

;)
 

Gee, I thought he was the Cowboys owner only. Huh.

well, at least a model1 from the SYWtours has a hole in the back....


On which songs did lindsey use that amazing instrument? Something on Go Insane Perhaps???

LOL! :laugh:

Yeah.. I am curious about that too..

Well, since he was pictured in The Chain box's booklet playing a REAL sitar, I assumed that it WAS a real sitar on "Make Me A Mask", but it could've been a Coral Electric, instead.

Yep, there could've been one in the background on the two "Play In The Rain" tracks on Go Insane.

Other than those, I haven't CONSCIOUSLY heard anything close to a Coral's sound on any other tune. I'll have to listen with headphones in the next few months and see if I can hear it anywhere.

Here I go sticking my neck out again, but...

What actually makes the Coral a sitar if it has fixed frets?

Is it just that it has sympathetic strings?

It's just CALLED a "sitar" because that's the sound it emulates (the 6 "guitar" strings are muted by a special bridge, and yes, the sympathetic strings)

In actuality, it IS just an electric guitar with sympathetic strings.:cool:

Ive never seen this before. Very interesting picture. Looks like about '83?

As I suspected -just wasn't sure.

Do you think it is a sitar on MMAM? I had been picturing something Japanese - maybe a koto, maybe one of those 3-string banjos.

Actually.. I think it's from one of the articles promoting Go Insane, so I would say 1984..