It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
When they invented the mandolin, it was as if they were trying to come up with the least efficient means of extracting noise from a piece of wood.
I don't recall getting a first guitar.
Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.
I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'
I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.
The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.
My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.
