- Picato 013 single £1000000.00
- PRS Experience 2010 Custom 24 Sunset Burst (Limited Edition) Electric Guitar (pre-owned) £2499.00
- Gibson Explorer Bass Guitar Silverburst £1099.00
- Focusrite Saffire 6 USB, SE Electronics SE X1, Project RF & Popshield £299.00
- Roland TD-20KX Electronic Drum Kit w/ Stands, Pedal, Sticks, Throne, Headphones £4035.53
- MOTU 828 Mk3 Hybrid FirewireUSB2 audio Interface £589.00
- Korg Kronos 61 Synthesizer Workstation £2599.00
- Digitech Whammy pedal £145.00
- Olympus LS-3 Linear PCM recorder with Tripod & 4Gb Micro SD £152.20
- Dynaudio BM6A MK2 Active Studio Monitors (Pair) & TC Electronic BMC-2 £1210.00
- Novation Impulse 25 USB MIDI Controller keyboard w/ FREE V-Station Virtual Synth £152.50
- Mackie Onyx 820i mixer with firewire £325.99
- Digitech iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard £389.56
- Samson Airline Micro Ear headworn radio microphone system £249.00
- Fender FSR Hot Rod Jazz Bass Guitar Olympic White (R/W S-1) (pre-owned) £1195.00
Gretsch Guitars
Gretsch Guitars are some of the most iconic and interestingly shaped guitars to grace our showroom wall, but did you know the company has been around for over a hundred years? Gretsch was first founded in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1880s as a manufacturer of tambourines. By the end of the 1920s, Gretsch was producing drumkits, banjos and the then-popular tenor guitar. In the 1930s, the Gretsch company saw the growing interest in electric guitars for jazz and blues bands and introduced a range of archtop acoustic guitars to its sales catalogue in 1933, the same year Gretsch opened a sales office in Chicago.
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By the mid 1950s, Gretsch guitars were recognised as one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of the electric guitars. One of the most famous guitar players of this period was Chet Atkins who had now started to endorse Gretsch guitars and so increase its popularity with many musicians. By the turn of the 1960s, Gretsch guitars were appearing in many a band line-up, most famously with The Beatles, whose George Harrison was a huge fan. Other famous names to play Gretsch guitars around this time included Roy Orbison, Gerry Marsden, Duane Eddy, Cliff Gallup, Brian Jones and Bo Diddley.
The classic full-body semi-acoustic style is the most recognisable Gretsch guitar style, and most models are fitted with a Bigsby tremolo unit which helps towards that full, rounded Gretsch sound. Gretsch also produces many famous-name model guitars, most notably the Brian Setzer models in recognition of Setzer’s association with Gretsch guitars over the last decade. After the death of the original Gretsch endorsee, Chet Atkins, his family acknowledged his long association with Gretsch guitars by allowing the creation of many Chet Atkins signature models.
