Guitars
A great guitar collector, Phillips uses a wide number of them in his live performances. The well-known National Style 0 which Knopfler uses in songs such as "Romeo & Juliet" and which became a Dire Straits emblem following its appearance on the cover of the Brothers in Arms album, was sold by Phillips in the early 1970s. This is a list of some of the guitars Phillips has used in his live shows; his current main live guitars are marked +
Acoustic guitars:
- Gibson L4 (1924)+
- Martin 00018 (1931)
- Martin 0016C (1964)
- N.S. Phillips 12-string (1977) (known as 'The Wardrobe')
- N.S. Phillips 6-string (1986)+
- Ralph Bown 12 String (1999)+
Electric guitars:
- National lap steel (1936)
- Gibson L-50 (1937)+
- Gibson ES100 (1938)
- Beltona electric resonator (1992) - the prototype of this model. +
- Phillips-Johnson resonator (2002)
Phillip's official website has photographs of many of these instruments.
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