The story of how Rory came to own his 1961 Fender Stratocaster is somewhat interesting in itself....
At present I’m using a Gretsch Corvette for slide instead of the Esquire. The Corvette is Gretsch’s attempt at a Les Paul Junior, but I took off the Gretsch pickup because it was too weak and I...
Rory using the Martin during the Deuce album sessions in 1971. Photo by Mick Rock.
"The Martin D35 I got in London in '69. It's getting better. I had to get a new bridge part...
"I got it from a guy in the States. You get these traveling guitar salesman going...
"I've still got a three-quarter size guitar I had when I was nine. It was in my grandmother's attic for years and I'd forgotten about it. I had a piece of a school ruler on...
"Rory had written the track ‘Philby’ about the Cold War and was keen to have some mysterious Eastern flavour on the track. The answer lay in having the sitar guitar to get a kind of balalaika effect, but Coral had only made 50 of these guitars and we only knew where 5 of them...
Rory's Martin Mandolin which he would famously play on the song 'Going To My Hometown'.
"That was another lucky find. It's an OM model — the orchestra model. Stefan Grossman had the guitar version and it's a gorgeous-looking instrument. It's a small folk-size mandolin but it joins at the 14th fret. It's got a mahogany finish...
“I still play bits and pieces. On Tattoo, it’s on “A Million Miles Away.” There’s a little hit on “Hands Off,” and “Seventh Son of...
Rory with his brand new 25th Anniversary Stratocaster and Fender Representatives in 1979 (L-R Don Johnston, Rory Gallagher, Larry Newman.
They thought I couldn’t afford a nice and clean...
"This 1960 Melody Maker was beefed up with a humbucker squeezed into the oval extension of the pickguard, which would have otherwise sported a slender, 7/8-inch-wide pickup with a plastic...
"The last one I bought is an old Les Paul junior; you know the one with one pickup. A very good...
Rory playing 'I Wonder Who' on the Airline at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1985:
https://youtu.be/Z7ITZgsd4x4
Guitarist Paul Fenton recounted seeing Rory with this guitar in...
"Rory said, shook our hands warmly and we trotted up the stairs so the lad could see the 'baited hook', a 1962 Supro...Paul handed Rory one of the Supros. "Ah yes, indeed, it's a beauty," he said, handing it back. Paul wouldn't take it....
Rory Gallagher plays an electric guitar in a recording studio on 23rd July 1973. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
“In America, if...
It was also used on the Defender album on the track 'Don't Start Me Talkin';
"Rhythm is on an old...
THE HAND BOOK (Player Corporation) Japan 1977
"It's as close to the Martin as I've heard. I got it on this Japanese trip. I'm impressed with it. When you plug it in, there's no great volume drop when you go...
Rory used this 12 string Vox for rhythm guitar parts in the studio:
"I have another very singular one. It...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFXtio4_siQ&t=131s
In the studio Rory used this guitar on the tracks 'Seven Days' and 'Loanshark...
This Epiphone Coronet from 1963, with its single P-90 pickup and beautifully checked and faded finish, it might be the most eye-catching guitar in the collection. Rory absolutely loved P-90s. He had them in Les Paul...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAc8QbafAk
Original catalog description:
STELLA 12-STRING GUITAR
Auditorium size, made of selected hardwoods. Well shaped neck with adjustable Torque-Lok reinforcing rod. Ebonized maple fingerboard...
“He liked Joe Maphis, but this is definitely out of the ‘looks cool’ section as opposed to anything that was particularly useful! He’d no doubt have gone, ‘That looks mad… four pickups – okay, just break off the tremolo arm and we’ll be sorted!...I could never imagine Rory being a double-neck player live. For...
Guitarist, June 1987
The Gibson Les Paul Jr. is a solid-body electric guitar introduced in 1954 as an affordable, entry-level Les Paul. It was first released with a single-cutaway body style; models with a double-cutaway body...
"The other odd man out, on the record, is a Chet Atkins Gretsch, a small bodied one, Les Paul shaped. I used that on 'Middle Name' for rhythm, and for the rhythm on 'King Zydeco.'"
Guitar for the practicing musician, August 1991
Rory playing his 1959...
"I've got an old Bjarton guitar and it's beautiful. It's a very small guitar like the small Martins. Blind Blake used to use one — it's like a ragtime guitar. The neck joins the body...
Guitar–the magazine for all guitarists, September 1978
The TB500 model guitars were...
The Gibson Melody Maker was first launched in 1959 and discontinued in 1971. It had a thin slab-style mahogany body and a one-piece mahogany neck. All the electronics, from the...
In 1959, Burns teamed up with Henry Weill and produced a small range of solid body ‘Burns Weill’ instruments, with complete electrical assemblies supplied and manufactured by Weill. These units were noticeably hotter, with visual influences similar to early Guyatone manufactured solid guitars, starting to appear in the UK in the late 50s.
As...
In 1959, Burns teamed up with Henry Weill and produced a small range of solid body ‘Burns Weill’ instruments, with complete electrical assemblies supplied and manufactured by Weill. These units were noticeably hotter, with visual influences similar to early Guyatone manufactured solid guitars, starting to appear in the UK in the late 50s.
As...
The Kay K672 Swingmaster was one of the many guitars produced by Kay in the early 1960's. It is a thinline hollowbody archtop, with a single rounded (florentine) cutaway and two pickups.
The body is built with maple laminate; the neck...
The Thunderbird had both lead and rhythm circuits. In lead mode you got a volume and tone control with a lower value capacitor that gave you...
The exact date of this guitar...
Yamaha SX800B 'Devils Head', is a rare domestic market model only made between 1976-79. Lightweight solidbody electric guitar with double cutaways and three single coil pickups. Features set neck, and katsura wood body.
Rory pictured with...
"Rhythm guitar was the Gretsch Corvette. We wanted to build it up without turning it into an orchestra thing, so I added a dulcimer instead of acoustic. Lead guitar was a white metal body Tokai Talbo -a very under-rated guitar. That went...
Armed, no doubt, with the sophisticated expertise it acquired in developing these accurate copies, Tokai turned to creating a guitar unique unto itself. The result was...
Rory in Spain with the Stratocaster, photo by Bob Hewitt.
Around 1979 Rory’s main Strat was playing up. He...
The Gallagher family returned the guitar after Rory's...
Single cone, nickel-plated.
Ebony fingerboard, bone saddle.
http://guitarhq.com/dano.html#models
Since 1990, the factory has been located in San Luis Obispo, California. It produces over 1000 instruments annually, in more than 50 different models.
https://www.silvertoneworld.net/electric/1478/1478.html
solid Californian Maple body,
HP GS-90 pickups,
Silver nickel frets. It was made in the early 1990s possibly in Japan.
Stratotone "Mars" cutaway model double pickup provide outstanding value in its price class. Hollow "tone chamber" construction. Ebonized maple fingerboard. Straight-line hardwood neck with built-in steel reinforcing rod. Finely finish in warm sunburst effect showing the grain of the wood. White celluloid bindings. Adjustable bridge. Hinged tailpiece.
Twin built-in pickups, each with...