EDS-1275 Double neck
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Don Felder of the Eagles used this white double-neck guitar for both the six-string and twelve-string parts of "Hotel California" in live performances. He played the twelve-string neck with a capo (a bar clipped between frets to raise the pitch of the open strings) on the seventh fret for the intro and verses, and the six-string neck for the choruses and guitar solos. Gibson introduced its double-neck instruments in 1958 with the EMS-1235, featuring a standard guitar neck and a short-scale "mandolin" neck tuned an octave higher. In 1962, the company issued the EBS-1250 double bass, pairing a standard guitar neck and bass neck.
Technical Description:
Mahogany body and necks, rosewood fingerboards; 24 ¾ in. scale; aged white finish; set 12- and 6- string necks with pearloid split parallelogram inlays; headstocks with inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo; two humbucking pickups per neck, two volume controls and one tone control, three-way pickup selector switch and neck selector switches, separate output jacks; nickel Nashville-style tune-o-matic bridges and tuning buttons, black and silver knobs, black plastic pickguards
Technical Description:
Mahogany body and necks, rosewood fingerboards; 24 ¾ in. scale; aged white finish; set 12- and 6- string necks with pearloid split parallelogram inlays; headstocks with inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo; two humbucking pickups per neck, two volume controls and one tone control, three-way pickup selector switch and neck selector switches, separate output jacks; nickel Nashville-style tune-o-matic bridges and tuning buttons, black and silver knobs, black plastic pickguards
Artwork Details
- Title: EDS-1275 Double neck
- Artist: Gibson (American, founded Kalamazoo, Michigan 1902)
- Artist: Don Felder (American, born Gainesville, Florida, 1947)
- Date: 1977
- Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic
- Dimensions: Length: 40 in. (101.6 cm)
Width: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)
Depth: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)
Weight: ~13 lbs. - Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
- Credit Line: Courtesy of Don Felder
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments