QUEEN GEAR IN BRIEF

Queen had an enormous collection of instruments between the four of them. Yet, they favored certain kinds more than others:

- Acoustic Drums: Large, customized kits.

- Electric Drums: Whatever was on vogue at the time (Syndrum, Simmons, Octapad).

- Bass Guitars: All electric, all four-string, all fretted except for one. Brian had a Danelectro Long-horn but it wasn't used in the studio.

- Electric Guitars: Brian had mostly fat-necked, and all four of them enjoyed Telecasters. Then, it depended on each one.

- 6-String Acoustic Guitars: Natural finish (mostly), dreadnought sizes, steel strings.

- 12-String Acoustic Guitars: Ovation Pacemaker, natural finish, Ricken tuning.

- Acoustic Pianos: Black color mostly, and concert size whenever possible.

- Synthesizers: Oberheim's, Roland's, Yamaha's, Fairlight's, Kurzweil's, Korg's and Ensoniq's, mostly.