ALL 90
Guitars 40
Amplifiers 11
Effects Pedals 12
Bass Guitars 3
Music Accessories 11
Drum Sets 1
World Instruments 1
Microphones 9
Strings 1
Cables 1
1968 Fender Woodstock Stratocaster
Music Radar mentions Jimi's most famous Strat in this article "Fender's Artist Relations manager said there was one other instrument he'd like me to l...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Gibson Flying V
"Custom built by Gibson specially for Jimi in 1969. All hardware is gold plated, and the guitar was left-handed and equipped with a tremolo bridge. Jimi played it during the Isle of Wright concert on “Red House”."
moreSubmitted over 7 years ago
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
Jimi's first ever Fender Stratocaster was a white 1964 model with rosewood fingerboard. He obtained it in New York, from Manny's Music, with funds from his girlfriend Carol Shiroky. It cost $289. He actually bought it from Jeff Baxter, later of Steely Dan, who was working at Manny's as an assista...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Silvertone Danelectro Electric Guitar
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Tony Zemaitis Jimi Hendrix 12-String
Although there isn't much to be found about this guitar, it did clearly belong to Jimi Hendrix. It can be seen in his famous '12-string blues' intro to 'a film about Jimi Hendrix', made 3 years after his dead.
The guitar currently resides in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Clevel...
moreSubmitted almost 9 years ago
Marshall Superlead Guitar Amplifier Head
According to a Christies auction, Jimi Hendrix used a 1966 Marshall Super Lead 100 Watt amplifier head in several concerts from 1967 to 1969.
According to the auction, here are some of the details of the amp head: "...Serial No. 7026, with black covering, front with white plastic Marshall...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Epiphone FT-79 Texan
According to this Epiphone article, in the late 1960s Jimi Hendrix acquired this Epiphone FT79 acoustic guitar. The guitar has serial #62262, and was built in NY in 1951 (original source ...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Fender Dual Showman
Jimi acquired new Fender Dual Showman amps in 1968. He would typically use three of these 100 watt amps with cabinets containing two 15-inch J.B.Lansing speakers. These amps were used in the studio, and on the 1968 Experience tour, together with Marshalls and Sunn. Source ...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Univox U-915 Uni-Vibe
Univibe & Rotary Effects Pedals
Vintage Guitar magazine created a "25 Most Valuable Effects" list and coming in at number 3 is the Univox Uni-Vibe pedal. "Vintage" writes in this article "If Hendrix touched it, you can bet it’s enshrined as effects legend. Created to replicate the sound of japanese radios pick...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Fender Jazzmaster
Jimi's main guitar for his gigs in Little Richard's backing band. Also used on at least one other occasion for his solo/Experience career. The accompanying picture was taken at the Symphony Hall in Newark, New Jersey on the 5th of April 1968.
moreSubmitted over 9 years ago
Fender Princeton Reverb (original issue, 1963-1981)
Hendrix can be seen here playing his Fender Princeton Reverb (68’ Silverface) which was listed on Reverb.
moreSubmitted over 4 years ago
Gibson 1955 Les Paul Custom Exclusive
From a Gibson article "Hendrix's Gibson Guitars" written by Daniel Eriksson in June 2014:
"Jimi Hendrix did own a ...
moreSubmitted almost 10 years ago
Supro Thunderbolt
In this stage photo of Jimi Hendrix during his days as a sideman you can clearly see a non-descript 1x15 cabinet with no logo or visible controls to his left, partially off camera. It is certainly the Supro Thunderbolt bass amplifier he reputedly used during his time with Little Richard and the I...
moreSubmitted over 8 years ago
Martin D-45 Acoustic
In Michael Heatley's book "Jimi Hendrix Gear", he discusses Hendrix's Martin D-45, which is said to be used on the recording of The Cry of Love album, on page 106.
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Fender 346 Medium Celluloid Guitar Picks
Pick or fingers.Jimi used whatever medium gauge pick he had, and it’s been reported that Experience carried thousands of picks on their tours.
moreSubmitted about 8 years ago
Fender Mustang Electric Guitar
Used for the Olympic Studios sessions of Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Lady Land. It was auctioned via Bonhams on November 21, 2004, only to be ...
moreSubmitted almost 3 years ago
Vox V846 Wah
Music Radar confirms Jimi's use of this pedal by saying "For anyone too stoned to remember, we can confirm that the original Vox V846 was the wah used by Jimi Hendrix for Voodoo Chile ...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Fender Jaguar
There are couple of photos dating circa 1964 of Jimi playing what’s either a dark blue, or a black-colored Fender Jaguar with dot inlays.
Tappy Wright who was Hendrix’s roadie at the time owned another Fender Jaguar which supposedly belonged to Jimi, and was given to him by Brian Jones of...
moreSubmitted almost 9 years ago
Marshall JTM45 45W Tube Guitar Amp Head
Jimi famously used Marshall JTM 45/100 heads. The 100 watt version of the JTM45. Specially the 1966 JTM 45/100.
moreSubmitted almost 8 years ago
1967 Gibson SG Custom - White
White 3-Pickup Gibson SG was played by Hendrix in Stockholm 1969. You get a perfect look at it at 0:24 (To avoid errors, click on the link to watch the video).
Also here you can see him play it on the Dick Cavett Show 196...
moreSubmitted over 9 years ago
Rotosound R10 Roto Yellows Nickel-Steel 10-46
He used a mix of gauges to create his own “custom set”. Rj Ronquillo has a good youtube video on the specific gauges. On rotosounds website he is listed as an artist, it seems he used rotosounds earlier in his career.
moreSubmitted about 4 years ago
Beyerdynamic M160
Used to mike Hendrix's guitar amp and for the vocals on Electric Ladyland, as stated by recording engineer Eddie Kramer in this November 2005 Sound on Sound interview.
moreWhen asked about the techniques used to record Hendrix's guitar, Eddie Kramer's response i...
Submitted over 4 years ago
Neumann U67
Used to mike Hendrix's guitar amp, as stated by recording engineer Eddie Kramer in this November 2005 Sound on Sound interview. Note that the first sentence of the following excerpt pertains to Electric Ladyland.
moreWhile Hendrix's amp was screened off in the s...
Submitted over 4 years ago
Fender Duo-Sonic Electric Guitar
On page 48 of the book Jimi Hendrix Gear they mention Curtis Knight bought Jimi a sunburst Fender Duo-Sonic as a gift. Knight got the guitar in exchange for refunding an airline...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago
Jimi Hendrix Sunburst Fender Stratocaster
Jimi Hendrix used this guitar at the Miami Pop Festival in 1968. It was burned on stage. Later, the guitar was given to Frank Zappa, who repaired the guitar. The guitar was used on stage multiple times. Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank, now owns it.
moreSubmitted about 6 years ago
Fender Precision Bass
Hendrix can be seen in this image with a Fender Precision Bass.
moreSubmitted almost 9 years ago
Sound City One Hundred (L100)
"In 1967 Jimi started using a Sound City stack for concert performances, it comprised one 100 watt amplifier with two 4x12" speaker cabinets."
-from "Electric Gypsy" by Shapiro and Glebeek, 1992, p. 639
moreSubmitted over 8 years ago
Electro-Harmonix EH-3003 "Triangle" Big Muff Pi V1
Electro-Harmonix founder and CEO Mike Matthews reported seeing Hendrix's Big Muff with his own eyes in 1969. There are multiple interviews in which he states this, but the most complete account was sent to Kit Rae for his Big Muff Pi Page's "Jimi Hendrix Big Muff" section.
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Submitted almost 5 years ago
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Jimi Hendrix’s guitar tone is instantly recognizable. Hendrix’s musical sound and lasting fame is inseparable from the iconic, warm, and crisp tone he coaxed from his guitars. Over his unbelievably prolific and sadly short-lived career he ran through guitars fast, but he found his heavenly match with the Fender Stratocaster. It was the guitar which he dubbed his favorite and it was this model he lit on fire during his infamous performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. Fittingly, according to his girlfriend Monika Dannemann, it was also the last guitar he played before his death.
Hendrix played many Stratocaster models, but he wasn’t above flirting with other guitars on occasion. He played a number of the Gibson Flying V, as well as a Gibson 1955 Les Paul Custom. His first electric guitar was the Supro Ozark 1560s, which he picked up back in 1959. In the mid-'60s, he messed around and did some recordings (including Spanish Castle Magic) with the twelve-string, double-necked Mosrite Joe Maphis guitar. For acoustic instruments, he went through two Martin D-45s and an Epiphone FT79. He composed a lot of his songs on the acoustic guitar before performing on the electric, including his famous cover of Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower.
Of course, Hendrix’s greatness goes beyond just his guitars. His iconic sound was tightly linked to his brilliant matching of instrument, amplification, and pedal effects. Limiting ourselves just to his 1969 performance at Woodstock, we can marvel at his twin Marshall 100-Watt Superlead Heads for four-foot-by-12-foot stacks. Before hitting the amps themselves, Hendrix ran his Stratocaster through (in this order) a Vox Wah pedal, a Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface, a Uni-Vibe pedal, which then sent a split signal out to the two Marshall amps.
An under-appreciated aspect of Hendrix’s sound, according to his friend and collaborator Roger Mayer, was the careful use of custom string gauges to help even out the pickup response across all six strings, while avoiding altering the Strat pickups themselves. According to Mayer, "Jimi was very aware that a simple chain of effects – along with few important options – would greatly free his mind to concentrate on performing and that a lot of control could be obtained from the guitar volume." Those are words to live by for any musician. Hendrix chose the right gear and used it effectively to create an optimal signal flow. Hendrix was an incredibly talented guitarist, and an equally brilliant sound engineer.
Gibson Jimi Hendrix Flying V - Psychedelic Paint
Solid Body Electric Guitars
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where the original was exposed:
*Though known for playing Fender Stratocasters, Jimi Hendrix played this Gibson Flying V extensively from 1967 to 1969. He probably used it on his 1967 BBC Radio 1 sessions and 1968’s Electric Ladyland, notably fo...
moreSubmitted about 10 years ago