![]() ![]() The third one was never set-up or modified and stayed at Kurt's house. These two were sent out for the In Utero tour. ![]() One had a red-swirl pickguard (seen 7), another a matte red pickguard. #KRAMER FERRINGTON MIX MATCHED SERIAL#There were three of these guitars, two of them set-up like below (41), one of them had the serial # 0 016988 (59). Sonic blue Fender Mustang with a full-sized humbucker in the bridge (seen 15, 7). Kurt later wanted all of his Mustangs routed for the JB., that is, except for the '69 competition (41). ![]() This guitar was to be Kurt's first Japanese Mustang to get routed for a humbucker, the stock neck pickup only had the cover changed (59), and was fitted with a Seymour Duncan JB. When he received the Chandler pickguard, he decided black pickup covers would look better with the pearloid. For the first Roseland NY show, Earnie switched the bridge pickup with a Seymour Duncan JB Hot Rails model in white, which is a fairly unusual pickup. It was used during the In Utero tour, most often seen with the white pearl pickguard. Earnie Bailey replaced the red tortoise pickguard with a white pearl pickguard from Chandler. It came with a red swirl pickguard with white pickup covers. Kurt received this guitar right before the first Roseland show. Lastly, Earnie would flip the tailpiece around allowing the strings to feed directly through the tailpiece, not under, and the ball ends of the strings would fit in the tailpiece's recesses (41). He would remove the two springs for the vibrato bar, add washers to the posts beneath the bridge plate, which locked it down to the plate. Earnie also had to modify the tailpiece to block the vibrato, which Kurt hated. The way Earnie modified these guitars is as follows:įirst, the nut had to be cut for heavier strings, then the neck shimmed for a better bridge angle with the cardboard backings from hotel stationery pads, and a Gotoh Tune-O-Matic bridge was installed. Three were sonic blue and one fiesta red (41). The March 1995 issue of "Guitar World" magazine mentions Kurt sent out 4 new, stock, Mustangs to be routed for humbuckers (32). Courtney gave it to him a month after Kurt's death, and it is eaxctly as I remember it, ever nick, ding, and solder joint" (59).Ģ). I recently worked on the real one and its preset owner allowed me to photograph it in detail. Either she or Eric had a right-handed one exactly like Kurt's, I'm not sure whose it was, but this is mostly likely that guitar." He goes on to say, "The Hard Rock Cafe does not own Kurt's competition blue Mustang. "The photo said that it had come from Courtney. The Australian Hard Rock Cafe claims they have this guitar, but Earnie Bailey says he saw a photo of the guitar they had and it was right-handed. This guitar remained in storage during the "In Utero" tour because Kurt really liked this guitar (57). This guitar can also be seen on the relatively well-known "Hollywood Rock" festival concert footage shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1993 (seen 13, 10). As a result, it had lower edge damage and a broken neck joint (41). Despite his babying this guitar, he trashed this guitar during the infamous Tree Club show (seen 2). ![]() It had two black, single coil sized pickups with a white mother-of-pearl pickguard the bridge was replaced with a Stewart MacDonald Gotoh Tune-O-Matic (Kurt's favorite)(57) before the Argentina trip. Kurt's Mustang was lake placid blue with matching headstock. The "Fender Book" says that the competitions, quote, "sometimes" came with matching headstocks.(11). #KRAMER FERRINGTON MIX MATCHED SERIES#Fender produced the Mustang competition series from around 1968-1973 and they are easily identifiable by the three racing stripes on the body. This is the guitar from the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video however, Kurt had been seen using it often during shows (seen 2,10,15). It was purchased around the same time as his Jaguar (discussed later), just prior to recording "Nevermind" (57). One of the most note-worthy of the assorted lefty Mustangs he used was a 1969 Lake Placid Blue "competition" Mustang, serial # F 279651 (59). Kurt said that his favorite guitar was a Mustang (9).ġ). If a right-handed guitar is mentioned in this document, it was being played this way. Kurt played guitar left-handed, mostly using left-handed guitars, but sometimes using a right-handed guitar strung for a lefty and played upside down. ![]()
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