New Six-String Double-Neck Bass/Guitar from Gretsch
February 14, 2002
Understanding that sometimes playing just a guitar or just a bass
won't do, the Gretsch Guitar Company now offers the new Double
Neck Six-String Bass/Guitar, Synchromatic Electric model
G1566. Gretsch's line of newly re-introduced Synchromatic Electric
guitars offer easy-playing, good-looking, and great-sounding
guitars at an outstanding value. Gretsch Synchromatic guitars of
the 1950s laid the stepping stones for the next generation of
successful Gretsch electrics that players own and enjoy today.
With a beautiful eye-catching silver sparkle body and headstock
with white binding, this guitar measures 1 5/8 inches thick. Both
the bass and guitar necks are maple with white-bound rosewood
fingerboards, feature dot inlays, and have 22 frets. The scale
length is 29-3/4 inches on the bass neck and 24-3/4 inches on
the guitar neck. All hardware is chrome plated and includes
master volume control, master tone control, three-way pickup
selector switch, and three-way instrument selector switch. The
three-way instrument selector switch allows the player to select the
bass, both instruments, or guitar.
Other features of this unique instrument include a
Bigsby Licensed vibrato tailpiece on the upper neck (bass) and
an original chrome-plated Bigsby vibrato on the lower neck
(guitar). Bigsby Vibrato tailpieces allow for trouble free vibrato
expression without the tuning problems often associated with
other mechanisms. Tune-O-Matic bridges and two Gretsch mini
Humbucker pickups on the bass and two Gretsch Humbucker
pickups on the guitar help this instrument retain clear, low-end
bass tones.
For more information, visit their web site at www.gretsch.com. |
