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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - #1 Guitars, Vol. 2

Ever wonder what PG readers'' go-to axes are? From true classics to completely custom, your #1 guitars cover the full spectrum.

"McKinney's #1 guitar is a brand new 2011 MIM Fender Telecaster. ""I like it because it sounds awesome, it can do just about anything,"" he explains."

Want more? Check out Volume 1! To submit your #1 guitar for our next gallery, send an email with 1-3 photos and a caption describing the instrument to rebecca@premierguitar.com.

Guitarist Brandon Seabrook, architect of fretboard chaos, and his trusty HMT Tele.

Photo by Reuben Radding

With a modified and well-worn heavy metal Tele, a Jerry Jones 12-string, a couple banjos, some tape sounds, and a mountain of fast-picking chops, New Yorkā€™s master of guitar mayhem delivers Object of Unknown Function.

ā€œItā€™s like time travel,ā€ says Brandon Seabrook, reflecting on the sonic whiplash of ā€œObject of Unknown Function.ā€ The piece, which opens the composerā€™s solo album of the same name, journeys jarringly from aggressive ā€œearly banjo stuffā€ up through ā€œmore 21st-century classical music,ā€ combined with electronic found sounds from a TASCAM 4-track cassette recorder. The end result approaches the disorientation of musique concrĆ©te.

ā€œThe structure is kind of like hopping centuries or epochs,ā€ he adds. ā€œI [wanted] all these different worlds to collide. Itā€™s like a choose-your-own-adventure.ā€

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The Hummingbird Studio EC features a mahogany body and sides with a Sitka spruce top, a Round SlimTaper profile mahogany neck, and L.R. Baggs electronics.

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A forward-thinking, inventive, high-quality electro-acoustic design yields balance, playability, and performance flexibility.

High-quality construction. Flexible, responsive, and detailed-sounding pickup/mic system. Lots of bass resonance without feedback or mud.

Handsome, understated design may still estrange traditionalists.

$1,599

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