GITTLER GUITAR Electric Guitar (New York, NY)

Created by Allan Gittler, whose patent was granted in 1978, this is an instrument of pure function. Stripped of accoutrements, the original Gittler looks more like a lap steel, a sitar or an instrument of torture than it does a traditional guitar. It trades the instrument’s usual wooden body and neck construction for an entirely stainless-steel build, 3 inches wide and 29 inches long, and about 2.7kg in weight. In another drastic departure from common designs of the time, the original Gittler had no electronics onboard. Instead, in possibly the first-ever hexaphonic guitar output, the Gittler featured six passive output leads that terminated as RCA jacks. These cables were plugged into a wooden breakout box with volume and tone controls for each pickup. In the Gittler’s original run, between the late 1970s and early 1980s, only 60 were made (though Allan also built three prototype basses during this period). The Gittler guitar gained popularity when it appeared in the 1983 video for The Police’s Synchronicity II, which, not inconspicuously, features Andy Summers playing a Gittler atop a trash heap of more traditional guitars.
Features
headless guitar
stain-less steel core and frets
locking tuners
hexaphonic pickups
29" scale length
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