page_title: Fender Duo-Sonic
section_title: Notable Duo Sonic players
hierarchical_section_title: Fender Duo-Sonic / Notable Duo Sonic players
caption_attribution_description: Horseshoe tavern, Toronto, May 13, 1978
context_page_description: The Fender Duo-Sonic is an electric guitar launched by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation as a student model guitar, an inexpensive model aimed at amateur musicians. It was referred to as a "3/4 size" Fender guitar.
  The original "Duo-Sonic" features two single-coil pickups and a vertical switch on the lower horn of the body to select bridge, neck or both pickups in a humbucking style configuration. The Duo-Sonic features typical Fender construction techniques with a bolt-on maple neck, attached to a solid body. The bridge is fixed and the line has a shorter scale neck than standard models as a concession to younger, beginner guitarists and other players with smaller hands.
context_section_description: Damon Albarn of Blur, a white Duo-Sonic II
  Walter Becker – of Steely Dan
  Mike Bloomfield - played a Duo-Sonic with 'The Group' in 1964, at their December 7 Columbia recording session, directed by John Hammond Sr.
  David Byrne – of Talking Heads early in his career.
  Rory Gallagher – used a Duo-Sonic guitar with Musicmaster neck that was tuned up one step circa 1982.
  Martin Gore of Depeche Mode
  Jimi Hendrix – played a Duo-Sonic when he backed up The Isley Brothers in the early 1960s and was known as Jimmy James, also in the studio in the mid-1960s,  and while gigging with Curtis Knight & the Squires (New York, late 1965).
  Richard Lloyd of Television
  John McLaughlin – before switching to a Gibson doubleneck in 1971.
  Liz Phair – one of her main guitars is a now-faded white '60s Duo-Sonic.
  Molly Rankin of Alvvays – used on their self titled LP and at live performances.
  Patti Smith – plays a Duo-Sonic and has featured her guitar in song lyrics, for example in "Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia" from the Radio Ethiopia LP.
  Tom Verlaine of Television
  Joe Walsh
  Dean Ween – Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr. of Ween plays a cherry-burst '60s Musicmaster with an added Duo-Sonic pickguard and Hot Rails bridge pickup.
  Johnny Winter – used a modified Duo-Sonic during the late 1960s and early 1970s, on his first few albums.
caption: David Byrne in 1978, playing his white Duo-Sonic II onstage with Talking Heads.
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