![]() ![]() The guitar's wiring harness and controls are painstakingly accessed through the F-holes. Trey's primary Languedoc (before the koa one) has a top of European curly maple - preferred by cello builders - and the back and sides are padauk with no back bracing. The cello-style tail-pieces are all hand carved ebony. Bone was used for the nuts and two piece bridge saddles and bases on the first two guitars, and bronze was used for the saddles of the koa one, for a more brillian sound. The shaped headstocks (with chrome plated Schallar tuning machines all on one side) have multiple binding and black faces with exceptional mother-of pearl inlay work depicting Trey's dog Marley. The laminated curly maple necks are set and glued to the body with carved heel-joint, and have 24 fret, bound ebony fingerboards with a 25-1/2" scale. The tops, backs and F-holes have multiple layers of white and black binding. (The padauk and maple/spruce guitars are made of bone, but the koa's is bronze to give it a more brilliant sound.) The hand carved, arched top hollowbodies have a shape reminiscent of a scaled down Fender Starcaster. Languadoc states that "The koa guitar is the best of all of them because the wood has the most elegant and solid sound of the three."Īccording to Guitar World (12/98), "Each has a carved top and bottom (with minimal interior bracing), exquisit fingerboard inlays, and six-in-line headstock, a custom tail-piece, and a hand-carved bridge. In 1997, it completed the transition to his main axe, leaving the two blonde ones as backups. He used this for the first time in October of 1996, and sporadically for the remainder of the year. The saddles are bronze on this guitar as opposed to the bone of the first two. The finish on this one is a darker, redder stain, with a slightly different headstock shape, different (even smaller) inlays, and two chrome-covered humbuckers. This guitar is all koa with a maple neck, and the same tapered body shape as the second one. Trey's third, and current Languadoc is a koa hollowbody built during 1996. Paul put the single coil pickup from the spruce guitar into this one, replacing the vacant hole in his old one with a plastic cover.ģ. The upper and lower bouts of this guitar are also not as curved as the original. There is a slightly different inlay on the headstock, and the inlay on frets12 and 24 are larger while the rest have been thinned down. This one has the same natural finish as the first one but the body is made from padauk (as opposed to spruce). Trey's second Languadoc, built in 1992, became his main guitar in the beginning of 1993 primarily, until late 1996. When #2 was complete, Old Reliable became his backup guitar.Ģ. Photos from 1992 show Trey using the spruce guitar with the plastic pickup cover, indicating that construction had begun on #2. When Paul began to build Trey's second guitar, he removed the single coil from the middle, and covered up the hole with plastic. This became Trey's primary guitar until his next one was built in 1992. The back and sides are spruce and the top is maple. Paul built it from a combination of spruce and maple, with 2 humbuckers and a single coil in the middle. This blonde beauty was built in late1987 for Trey when he told Paul that he wanted a fatter sound. ![]() "Old Reliable," Trey's first custom electric guitar. Trey Anastasio has thre"index.html"ul Languadoc electric guitars, all built by Paul Languadoc, the soundman for the band. (Thanks to Julia Mordaunt) Mainly a backup, it was used increasingly throughout 1996 and into 1997, though the padauk remains Trey's main axe. He used this for the first three or four tunes at Hartford, which included PYITE and AC/DC Bag, and for the Waste encore 10-16-96 and for PYITE, Poor Heart and AC/DC Bag 10-23-96. (This is the one Paul is talking about below.)Ī koa hollowbody built 1996, with a darker, redder finish, almost like mahagony, with different inlays, and two soapbars. His main guitar, built in 1990, with the same (blonde) finish as the main one but made from padauk, with a different inlay on the headstock, a large inlay from frets ~11-13, and two chrome soapbars. This became Trey's backup until the koa was built in 1996. Old reliable, a blonde beauty built in 1987 from a combination of spruce and maple, with 2 humbuckers and a piece of plastic filling the middle pickup hole (where a single once was). Trey has played these guitars, in this order, and still plays those with asterisks: ![]()
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