The musical possibilities soon stretch out in front of you.Īs Gretsch guitars go, the electronics are simple. It has a solid mahogany body, a big ol’ slab with a similarly-scaled maple neck with a four-bolt heel, and once you catch your breath after hearing the low sixth-string - here tuned to A - rumble for the first time, you’ll be struck by how much of that Gretsch elastic growl is in its tone. The geometry seems in proportion, familiar, but it sure does feel like a different instrument like a bass You’ll find the same experience with the G5260T. Duane Eddy, a man whose tone shouldīe listed in all good dictionaries under ‘twang’, used a Danelectro Longhorn 4623 liberally - most famously on 1959’s The Twang’s The Thang - and his signature tone was faithfully transposed to the longer 30-inch scale instrument. This is how baritones were originally intended. It’s a six-string, the geometry seems in proportion, familiar, and that neck profile, a shallow C, is never going to fool you in a blind taste test with a P-Bass, but it sure does feel like a different instrument like a bass. Picking up the G5260T, that’s the first thing that hits you. Hitherto their destructive potential would have been restricted to demarcation disputes with musicians’ unions are you a bassist or a guitarist? Well, using this you are kind of both. HARDWARE: Bigsby-licensed B50 Vibrato, anchored Adjusto-Matic bridge, chromeįINISH: Black, Airline Silver
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