i don’t have perfect pitch and i didn’t realize that it was way lower, so the e string was actually a d, the a string was a g, and so on. i didn’t have my own guitar for quite awhile, and i’d play my girlfriend’s guitar. that happened by accident a couple of years ago. “i get mediums because i tune all the strings down a step. laurent, pq h4t 1a6, canada 343-5560 uses john pearse medium-gauge, phosphor-bronze strings. i don’t use a pick when i play most of the time, and i chew my fingernails, so it’s a good guitar for me because it’s really loud.” he recently expanded his collection with a norman 12-string (la si do, 4240 sere st., st. “it’s big and loud and made out of light wood. “it’s a real standard-looking guitar,” he says. his main acoustic guitar is a yamaha, the model number of which escapes him. When it comes to musical equipment, prolific songwriter elliott smith doesn’t need a lot of bells and whistles he prefers to keep things fairly simple.

Other guitars seen on record covers and pictures: fender telecaster front cover of xo fender mustang inside cover of xo epiphone crestwood in a guitar player article gibson les paul deluxe in strange parallel fender precision bass in strange parallel The pedals of course are the dl-4 and the budda phatman tube overdrive.

The top hat amp he uses is a model k-35 (king royale). he also uses a cheap 70’s yamaha acoustic. The old gibson acoustic is actually a 60’s j-45 and he uses a fishman rare earth soundhole pickup with it. Guitars: 2 gibson es-330’s, a pre-1969 red one in standard tuning and a ‘69 or later sunburst one in open d (dadf#ad) (the difference between the pre and post 1969 is the fret at which the neck joins the body, the post at the 19th fret and the pre at the 16th, but that’s probably more than you want to know). I'm sure you're all familiar with this quote from the FAQ: I was also hoping that this thread might become a center for discussion related to the guitar gear (and other music equipment) used by Elliott in his recording and touring days. Saw this link this morning and figured some might find it interesting.

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