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Rory Gallagher: A Fender Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar, 1976, guitar 39in (99cm) long image 1
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Lot 66

Rory Gallagher: A Fender Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar, 1976,
guitar 39in (99cm) long

17 October 2024, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £35,840 inc. premium

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Rory Gallagher: A Fender Telecaster Deluxe Electric Guitar,

Serial no. 713777 on three-screw neck plate, single-cutaway body with brown finish, two humbucking pickups, two controls and three-way selector mounted into extended, laminated pickguard, tone control pots non-original, re-fretted maple fingerboard with dot markers, Bi-Flex truss rod adjustment, walnut skunk stripe, large Strat-style headstock with Fender tuners, in plush-lined, rectangular hardshell case,

Footnotes

Rory acquired this Telecaster Deluxe around the time of the San Francisco album recordings in 1977/1978. It was also used on the Photo-Finish album sessions in 1978.

"I got a Fender Tele-Deluxe with the humbuckers, might as well see what they're like. There's no doubt they have that heavy fat sound the single-coils don't have, but the main problem with most guitars with humbuckers, until recently, is that they used to put the wrong values in tone pots and volume pots, so when you took your volume down to 8 the guitar went dead, and you couldn't get that natural fade away sound."
- Rory Gallagher, Guitarist magazine in September 1978.

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