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This is a list of musical equipment used by Kurt Cobain during his time with the band Nirvana. more...

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Guitars

Kurt played guitar left-handed, mostly using left-handed guitars, but sometimes used a right-handed guitar strung for a lefty and played upside down.

Electric

• A Mosrite copy called a "Hi-Flyer." He replaced the single coils with humbuckers. He used this guitar on Bleach.
• Fender Mustang. Kurt said that the Mustang was his favorite guitar. He replaced the bridge with a Gotoh Tune-O-Matic, and the bridge pickup usually replaced with a Seymour Duncan JB Humbucker (the Mustang comes with dual single coils and therefore the guitar had to be routed to accommodate the full size humbucker)
• Fender Jaguar. Kurt's main guitar during the Nevermind era was a 1965 sunburst Fender Jaguar.
• Kurt liked to have Japanese Fender Stratocasters to smash at the end of his sets.
• Kurt also used a Fender Telecaster. In early 1994, Fender sent Kurt a Japanese Sunburst Telecaster to replace a blue (which was also originally sunburst, it was handpainted blue by Cobain, and he scratched the shape of a heart and "Courtney" into it) one that was trashed in 1992. After his coma in Rome, Kurt got away from the Jaguar-Mustang image. The guitar included Gotoh tuners (his favorite ones), a Tele bridge from Stew-Mac with a humbucker cut-out and individual saddles for each string. He got it 2 weeks before his death and said it was his new favorite. He used it for the recordings that he did in his basement with Pat Smear and Eric Erlandson 1 week later.
• Fender Jag-Stang, this was another custom collaboration with Fender. It was seen starting in mid-to-late 1993 (apparently at the beginning of the In Utero tour) although Kurt rarely played it. It featured a DiMarzio H-3 humbucker in the bridge and a Texas Special single in the neck. After Kurt's death, Fender was given the go ahead to mass produce these. Courtney Love gave Kurt's Jag-Stang to R.E.M. Peter Buck. He played it in the "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" music video and REM bassist Mike Mills plays it live on "Let Me In".
• Univox Hi-Flyers. Although Kurt is known for his Fenders, he would use other brands from time to time. One of his favored models was the Univox Hi-Flyer, a copy of the Mosrite Ventures guitar. He owned mostly sunburst Hi-Flyers, but was seen with at least two white ones, including the one used in the Heart-Shaped Box music video. Cobain was also reported to have owned several natural finish models.
• For the Nevermind under photoshoot a Black Epiphone Les Paul was used (probably only for this time).

Acoustic

• 12-string Stella Harmony on Nevermind and In Utero, for "Polly" and "Something in the Way".
• Prior to the In Utero tour, Kurt's main acoustic was an Epiphone Texan purchased after completing "In Utero" as a replacement for the Stella. Despite this, he wouldn't use it on "Unplugged"
• A late-fifties Martin D-18E for "Unplugged".

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