Model 3021
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Page bought this guitar from London’s Selmer shop in 1963 for his session recording work and first played it live in 1967 with the Yardbirds on his instrumental piece “White Summer.” He used it in “Celtic tuning,” the alternate tuning with strings tuned to DADGAD, with Led Zeppelin on “When the Levee Breaks,” “In My Time of Dying,” “Kashmir,” and “Black Mountain Side.”
Technical Description:
Semi-hollow body; tempered Masonite top and back, poplar neck, core, and sides, rosewood fingerboard, vinyl side covering; 25 in. scale; black finish; bolt-on neck with dot inlays; black “coke bottle” headstock with silkscreened silver Danelectro logo; two single-coil pickups, three-way selector switch, two concentric volume/tone controls; nickel tuning machines, black and white plastic stacked knobs, white Masonite pickguard; stock bridge replaced with Leo Quan Badass bridge
Technical Description:
Semi-hollow body; tempered Masonite top and back, poplar neck, core, and sides, rosewood fingerboard, vinyl side covering; 25 in. scale; black finish; bolt-on neck with dot inlays; black “coke bottle” headstock with silkscreened silver Danelectro logo; two single-coil pickups, three-way selector switch, two concentric volume/tone controls; nickel tuning machines, black and white plastic stacked knobs, white Masonite pickguard; stock bridge replaced with Leo Quan Badass bridge
Artwork Details
- Title: Model 3021
- Artist: Danelectro Company
- Artist: Jimmy Page (British, Heston, born 1944)
- Date: 1961
- Medium: Poplar, Masonite, rosewood, metal, vinyl, plastic
- Dimensions: Length: 38 in. (96.5 cm)
Width: 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm)
Depth: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
Weight: 6-7 lbs. - Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
- Credit Line: Collection Jimmy Page
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments