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The range of audios on the Red Unique remains exceptional even today. With 3 ON/ OFF turns on and off and three independent Stage/ Out of Stage switches for each of the three pickups, they deliver a variety of extraordinary tones. In this method you can attain Stratocaster-like audio by connecting a single pickup or the mix of neck and middle, while linking all 3 can accomplish the gain of a Les Paul.

May made this whole guitar with specifications to her own taste and desire, for example among the important things she tried to find was to accomplish coupling or feedback. Brian confesses that having fun with it fascinates him. For this, he was motivated after seeing Jeff Beck playing live and making various sounds merely by moving the guitar in front of the amplifier.

Brian has actually used the Red Unique almost exclusively and distinctively on Queen albums and live efficiencies given that the band's creation in the early 1970s. Virtually all of Queen's songs are tape-recorded on this instrument, with the exception of Crazy Little thing called love, which used the old and reliable Telecaster and some tracks taped with acoustic guitars.

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The guitar player informed him that he could not, that if he didn't use it, a part of him would be missing. Luckily, the "Old woman" has actually endured all those trips, remaining in outstanding functional condition. Did you see this? of the Red Unique Building the guitar was arduous and difficult work. Brian May himself has stated that they did not have sophisticated tools.

An anecdote told by the artist that shows how challenging the process was was that while dealing with the oak of the guitar body, Brian, using the sculpt, broken part of the wood. The teenage guitar player got so frustrated and angry that he tossed whatever out the window, then calmer, went back to work.

General Specifications of the Red Woman The Red Special, likewise known as The Fireplace or The Old Girl, is a guitar with a mahogany neck with an oak fingerboard screwed to a hollow body composed of oak, pushed wood and a visual sheet of mahogany. and double binding. It has a short 24 "scale and 24 worries without considering the absolutely no fret -Absolutely no Fret-.