Tom Waits

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As of 2008, Tom Waits' main guitar was a solidbody mid '50s Kay/Orpheus Stratotone H-44, run through a blackface Vibro-Champ. (Mark Ribot, Omar Torrez, and John Hammond have also played Stratotones.) His acoustic was a late '20s/early '30s Oscar Schmidt Stella parlor guitar, with a Fishman Rare Earth pickup, run through a blackface Princeton Reverb. Shure SM58.

He's been known to play a Guild electric, believed to be a '50s M-65 Freshman.

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