Don Felder (Eagles)'s Gibson EDS-1275 Double neck (1977) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.33.18 by Eden, Janine and Jim)

Hotel California Guitar

The double-necked Gibson Don Felder used on The Eagles' "Hotel California."

Don Felder (Eagles)'s Gibson EDS-1275 Double neck (1977) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.33.18 by Eden, Janine and Jim)

• EDS-1275 Double neck (1977), Gibson. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  "​Don Felder of the Eagles used this white double-neck guitar for both the six-string and twelve-string parts of "Hotel California" in live performances. He played the twelve-string neck with a capo (a bar clipped between frets to raise the pitch of the open strings) on the seventh fret for the intro and verses, and the six-string neck for the choruses and guitar solos. Gibson introduced its double-neck instruments in 1958 with the EMS-1235, featuring a standard guitar neck and a short-scale "mandolin" neck tuned an octave higher. In 1962, the company issued the EBS-1250 double bass, pairing a standard guitar neck and bass neck. ",
  "​Technical Description: Mahogany body and necks, rosewood fingerboards; 24 ¾ in. scale; aged white finish; set 12- and 6- string necks with pearloid split parallelogram inlays; headstocks with inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo; two humbucking pickups per neck, two volume controls and one tone control, three-way pickup selector switch and neck selector switches, separate output jacks; nickel Nashville-style tune-o-matic bridges and tuning buttons, black and silver knobs, black plastic pickguards ",
  "​Artwork Details ",
  "​Title:  EDS-1275 Double neck ",
  "​Artist: Gibson (American, founded Kalamazoo, Michigan 1902) ",
  "​Artist: Don Felder (American, born Gainesville, Florida, 1947) ",
  "​Date:   1977 ",
  "​Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic ",
  "​Dimensions: Length: 40 in. (101.6 cm) / Width: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm) / Depth: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) / Weight: ~13 lbs. ",
  "​Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ",
  "​Credit Line: Courtesy of Don Felder "