File:Steve Miller's ca.1983 Modulus Monocoque Flight 6, John Entwistle (The Who)'s ca.1976 Alembic 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.32.43 by Eden, Janine and Jim).jpg

Steve Miller John Entwistle

Steve Miller's ca.1983 Modulus Monocoque Flight 6, John Entwistle (The Who)'s ca.1976 Alembic 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.32.43 by Eden, Janine and Jim)

Steve Miller's ca.1983 Modulus Monocoque Flight 6

• Monocoque Flight 6 (ca.1983), Modulus. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  "​This experimental headless guitar, owned and played by Steve Miller, features a “monocoque” body and neck made from a hollow one-piece carbon-fiber and graphite shell. Modulus founder Geoff Gould, inspired by his background in aerospace engineering, designed this instrument, of which only about twenty were produced in guitar (Flight 6) and bass (Flight 4) versions. Gould also adapted carbon fiber and graphite to more conventional instruments, building basses and guitars with carbon-fiber-reinforced necks for artists like Flea. ",
  "​Technical Description: Hollow one-piece carbon fiber and graphite body and neck; 25 in. scale; graphite grey; headless integral neck with mother-of-pearl dot inlays; two humbucking Seymour Duncan pickups, three-way selector switch, volume and tone controls, adjustable brass bridge with tuners mounted on lower body, Modulus Graphite logo decal on lower treble bout ",
  "​Object Details ",
  "​Title:  Monocoque Flight 6 ",
  "​Artist: Modulus ",
  "​Artist: Steve Miller ",
  "​Date:   ca. 1983 ",
  "​Medium: Carbon fiber, graphite, brass, metal, plastic ",
  "​Dimensions: Length: ~32 in. (81.3 cm) / Width: ~7-8 in. (17.8-20.3 cm) / Depth: ~1 1/2 (3.8 cm) / Weight: 4-6 lbs. ",
  "​Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ",
  "​Credit Line: Courtesy of Steve Miller "

John Entwistle (The Who)'s ca.1976 Alembic 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE)

• 8-String Custom Explorer (ca.1976, serial no. MINE), Alembic Inc.. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  "​John Entwistle of the Who designed this Explorer-style bass with Alembic. It features eight strings, which doubles each of the standard four bass strings an octave higher. It was one of three instruments he ordered from Alembic that took two years to build. The bass features the company’s signature figured maple and walnut woods in a laminated construction, and the spiderweb body inlays reference the song “Boris the Spider” from the Who’s A Quick One (1966). Entwistle played this instrument on “Trick of the Light” from Who Are You (1978) and “You” from Face Dances (1981). At live performances, this bass was so loud that the band and road crew would move away from his side of the stage. The LED lights on the neck illuminated the frets when the stage was dark. ",
  "​Technical Description: Bird’s eye maple top and back, walnut core, seven-piece maple and walnut neck through body, ebony fingerboard; 34 in. scale; natural finish with sterling silver spider’s web inlays; mother-of-pearl note inlays to fingerboard with LED side dots, double truss rods; arrow-shaped headstock with purpleheart and zebrawood veneers, raw brass Alembic logo, five-ply maple and walnut binding; three active pickups (one a dummy for hum cancelling), two volume and two tone controls, two master volume controls with preset switch and rotary pickup selector on upper treble horn, two-way coil tap and phase switches, low-pass filters, five-pin DIN and standard ¼ in. jacks for stereo output; brass adjustable bridge and tailpiece, chrome and nickel tuners, black plastic knobs ",
  "​Object Details ",
  "​Title:  8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) ",
  "​Artist: Alembic Inc. ",
  "​Artist: John Entwistle ",
  "​Date:   ca. 1976 ",
  "​Medium: Bird's-eye maple, walnut, ebony, purpleheart, zebrawood, brass, nickel, chrome, silver, plastic ",
  "​Dimensions: Length: 48 1/2 in. (123.2 cm) / Width: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm) / Depth: 1 9/16 - 1 3/4 in. (3.9-4.4 cm) / Weight: approx. 13-15 lbs. ",
  "​Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ",
  "​Credit Line: Collection of David Swartz ",
  "​Provenance: Custom built for John Entwistle, ca. 1976; Sold at Sotheby's auction of the John Entwistle Collection, 13 May 2003 "