- Manufactured by
- ESP Guitars, Japanese, founded 1975
- Used by
- Harvey, Carl, Jamaican Canadian, born 1958
- Subject of
- Toots and the Maytals, Jamaican, founded 1962
- Date
- ca. 2012
- Medium
- wood with metal and plastic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (.1: guitar): 38 3/8 × 12 5/8 × 1 9/16 in. (97.5 × 32 × 4 cm)
- H x W x D (.2: case): 43 11/16 × 15 9/16 × 5 1/8 in. (111 × 39.5 × 13 cm)
- Description
- This is a prototype custom ESP Rastacasta electric guitar (.1) with case (.2a), played by Carl Harvey of Toots and the Maytals. The guitar has a wood body finished with three stripes in red, yellow and green. The neck and headstock are a natural wood tone. It has a black pickguard, and red, yellow and green pickups with gold toned hardware. The black hardshell case (.2a) is rectangular with fasteners along the sides and a single black handle. It has a grey padded interior molded to fit the guitar. Inside the guitar case was a plastic zip-lock bag of the following items: a gold colored whammy bar with a black rubber tip (.2b). An unopened black cardboard box of guitar strings manufactured by Tite-Fit (.2c). On it is white text that reads "TITE-FIT / 9.5 -44 / THE HANDMADE STRING / DR." Three extra tuning knobs in red, green, and yellow (.2d-f).The red and the green knobs have black text that reads "VOLUME" while the yellow has text that reads "TUNE."
- Classification
- Musical Instruments
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2021.102.6.1-.2a-j
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.