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Sunday, May 18, 2025

Tools of the trade - John McLaughlin’s Gibson “Shakti” guitar 💫

 


John's 'Shakti' guitar, designed by Abraham Wechter, currently exhibited at the MuPop Music Museum in Montluçon, France.




You can take a closer look at the guitar's scalloped fretboard…

… and sympathetic strings and tuning pegs

Some truly unique and awesome music was played on this one of a kind instrument, able to mimic - in the right hands - the complexity of Indian ragas, almost like a sitar or a surbahar do.


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