George Harrison called it his “first good guitar,” and he played it for most of his life. But a Gretsch Duo Jet wasn’t easy to get hold of if you lived in Liverpool in 1961. George found his secondhand from an ad in the Liverpool Echo. He took the £75 he’d saved and bought it from a sailor who’d gotten the guitar in America. George polished the guitar and made it look good, using it at the Cavern, in Hamburg, and on The Beatles’ records. A sharp-looking guitar with a semi-solid body, the Duo Jet is known for its fine treble sound and for a thin neck that makes it especially comfortable to play. George’s was a 1957 model, which is highly valuable today. But Gretsch still makes the Duo Jet and retains the Bigsby vibrato pedal, which produced a “twangy” sound that George was especially fond of.
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