Similar in spirit to the double cutaway Mira model, the single cutaway Starla has many vintage themed appointments and is PRS Guitars’ first solidbody electric guitar featuring a standard Bigsby B5 tail piece and a Grover Tune-O-Matic bridge. The guitar also includes exclusive Starla Treble and Bass pickups.
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The sound of the electric 12 string guitar has been ubiquitous in recorded pop music over the last 40 years. Without this chimey layered jangle … well, bands like the Byrds, Beatles, Tom Petty and countless others would simply not have had “their” sound.
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The Coral Sitar® was such a defining sound of the 60s and with Jerry Jones’ refinements to this classic design, you will feel like you have returned to those halcyon days.
The precision made sitar Buzz bridge produces that now familiar whirring sound and provides for accurate string intonation. The 13 sympathetic strings can be tuned in a variety of ways and can be played as accompaniment or left to ring in sympathy with the fretted notes of the 21 fret neck.
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Jerry Jones has been building custom stringed instruments for professional recording artists for the last 30 years. Probably the most recorded of Jerry’s instruments is the electric sitar. These instruments successfully replicate the sounds on numerous recordings from the 60’s & 70’s and are handy to have around the studio for adding a different tone-colour to a track.
MORE →In a world of copycat designs and guitar look-alikes, why not dare to be different? Finished in blazing red, the Electromatic Bo Diddley features two chrome humbucker pickups, a maple bolt-on neck with rosewood fingerboard, an adjustable bridge, volume and tone controls plus master tone control and a master volume control, a 3 way pickup selector, and die cast tuners. The distinctive rectangular body measures 9 1/4″ x 17 3/4″ x 1 3/4″.
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The first time I ever encountered a Jazzmaster in person, it was in the hands of a great guitarist by the name of Stan Gadziola, who was one of two guitarists slinging their axes in the service of an amazing R&B band called Sounder. They played around the Georgian Bay area in the 1980s, and I managed to misspend a fair chunk of my misspent youth at their gigs. I thought the Jazzmaster was just about the coolest looking thing on the planet, especially in an era that was overpopulated by Kramer and Charvel wannabes.
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