Vox Mark IX 1960's Vintage 9 string electric guitar 3 Tone Sunburst w hard case *** FREE SHIPPING ***

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This is a 1960's Vintage Vox 9 string electric guitar.
The Low E,A, & D strings are single, and the Higher G, B, and E are doubled up.

Plays great! Italian made.
Tear drop shape.
Appears to be all original except for:
It's missing the pickup selector switch tip, and missing the back upholstery piece,
The tremolo bar was replaced with a newer aftermarket one.
She shows lots of wear throughout, with dings and nicks all over.... I snapped several pictures, going around the guitar to show all of them.
There is checking, but really not near as much or severe as what I've seen on other Voxs.
This guitar is about to turn 60 years old, and is still solid!
GREAT VINTAGE FIND!

I'll ship it to you in this hard case, (missing the middle latch, but functions and closes just fine.)

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Any questions, just ask ;)

Description: This model was first available in 1966. The Vox Mark IX guitar was a nine string instrument. While never very successful commercially, the Mark IX guitar is an excellent example of the innovative spirit of Vox in the 1960's. Vox was not afraid to take risks in the pursuit of developing imaginative products. Here is the history.

Vox entered the guitar business in 1961 with a line of low to medium cost student grade guitars. These solid body guitars had traditional double cut away body shapes and were comparable in quality to instruments from Watkins in the UK or Kay in the United States.

Vox also wished to develop professional grade instruments. Vox determined that "copy cat" guitar designs for their professional models would be unacceptable. Their new professional guitar models would need to have body designs that were unique and iconic, rendering them immediately recognizable as a Vox instrument. To help accomplish this styling goal, Vox entered into a contract with the London Design Centre in 1962 to propose unconventional yet attractive guitar body shapes for the new Vox professional series guitars. The result of this initial effort was the "coffin" shaped  guitar.

On the heels of the introduction of the Phantom VI, a new solid body "teardrop" shaped guitar was developed that also used the "Stratocaster" inspired triple single coil pickup arrangement from the Phantom VI.

Vox originally named this new "teardrop" model the "Phantom Mark VI" guitar when it was introduced in 1963. Before long, the name was shortened to simply "." A twelve string version, the , was also introduced.

Someone in the guitar development department at Vox must have determined that the octave string pairs for the D, A and low E strings on a twelve string guitar were not essential. This conclusion led to the development of a modified Mark XII twelve string guitar with nine strings. The treble side of the fret board had three unison pairs of strings, the bass side had three single strings.

The Vox Mark IX guitar was first offered to the US market in the 1966 "Vox, It's Whats Happening - Beatles Cover" catalog. .