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The Gretsch 6120 is a hollow body electric guitar with f-holes, manufactured by Gretsch and first appearing in the mid-1950s with the endorsement of Chet Atkins.It was quickly adopted by rockabilly artists Eddie Cochran, Duane Eddy, and later by Eric Clapton, Brian Setzer, Reverend Horton Heat, and many others.
Atkins's Gretsch Country Gentleman, model G6122, 1962. In addition to recording, Atkins was a design consultant for Gretsch, which manufactured a popular Chet Atkins line of electric guitars from 1955 to 1980.
1955 Chet Atkins 6120. Bono playing a Gretsch Irish Falcon. Former Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith plays his signature model Gretsch Model 6076. By the mid-1950s the company introduced several models, including the 6120 "Nashville," and the 6128 Duo Jet chambered "solid body", which was played by Bo Diddley. [6]
By the mid-1950s, Chet Atkins was one of the world's most famous guitar players and the first endorser of Gretsch guitars. However, he was displeased with the 60-cycle hum of the single coil pickups used in his signature 6120 guitar model and complained to his friend Ray Butts, an inventor and amp builder from Cairo, Illinois.
In 1954, Gretsch began plans to produce the first Chet Atkins-endorsed guitar model, the Gretsch 6120. Atkins recorded much of his music of the 1950s with the Echosonic, [ 5 ] but had serious hum problems caused by the single-coil pickups and an unshielded transformer in the amplifier.
Eddy's favored guitar was a 1957 Chet Atkins Gretsch 6120 guitar that he bought at Ziggie's Music in Phoenix, Arizona in 1957. [1] He traded in an early 1950s gold top Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar for it, [1] plus monthly payments of $17. [41] On 1959's The "Twangs" the "Thang" LP he also used a Danelectro six-string bass. [42]