Jimi Hendrix purchased a left-handed black 1968 Fender Stratocaster with a maple neck at Manny’s Music in New York City and later gave it as a gift to Richard “Deering” Howe. Howe was a friend of Jimi’s in the late 1960s, and the two reportedly traveled to Morocco together during the summer of 1969.
The guitar remained with Howe until 1988, when he decided to sell it through Sotheby’s auction house. Unfortunately, no details about the auction, including the sale price or the guitar’s current owner, are available online. If you have any information about this guitar, please share it in the comments below.
Jimi mainly used restrung right-handed guitars, but he did own a black, maple neck 1968 left-handed Stratocaster. This instrument was sold at Sotheby’s in 1988.
Douglas J Noble, Music Director of UniVibes, the international Jimi Hendrix magazine
Deering Howe also had a connection to Duane Allman. Howe owned or rented a penthouse at One Fifth Avenue in New York City, and during one visit, Duane played this guitar, which had been strung for right-handed use (Gregg Allman, My Cross to Bear, p. 185–186).
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