{{Short description|Semi-acoustic guitar made by Rickenbacker}} {{More citations needed |date=November 2024}} {{Infobox Guitar model|title=Rickenbacker 360 |image=200px |manufacturer=Rickenbacker |period=1958–present |bodytype=Semi-Hollow |necktype=Set |woodbody=Maple Carved, with white plastic binding along the back |woodneck=Three-ply Maple/dyed maple/maple (not walnut) |woodfingerboard=Rosewood with pearloid triangle inlays and white plastic binding |bridge=Adjustable |pickups=Two Single-coil pickups |colors=Mapleglo (natural), Fireglo (sunburst), Jetglo (black), Midnight Blue, Ruby}}
The '''Rickenbacker 360''' is a semi-acoustic guitar made by Rickenbacker, and part of the Rickenbacker 300 Series. The instrument incorporates many features standard on Rickenbacker guitars, including a three-ply maple/walnut neck, shallow headstock angle, a thick rosewood fretboard finished with clear conversion varnish, and double truss rods. The 360 also features stereo or mono output, a body with Rickenbacker's "crescent moon" cutaway shape and rounded top edge and bound back, and an R-shaped trapeze tailpiece. A twelve-string version of the 360 (Rickenbacker 360/12) is available. A three-pickup version of this model is also available, the 370.
George Harrison of The Beatles had been extensively using an earlier style 360/12 (closer resembling the 330/12 model), but retired it immediately from stage performances upon receiving the new style 360/12 (having rounded cutaways and top edge) in August 1965. The first recording by The Beatles of this new model 360/12 can be heard on the song "If I Needed Someone". Roger McGuinn, of The Byrds, played a 12-string Rickenbacker 370. The six-string Rickenbacker 360 model is favoured by artists including R.E.M.'s Peter Buck<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Scapelliti |first1=Christopher |title=How the Smiths and R.E.M. Gave Rickenbacker Guitars Renewed Appeal in the Early '80s |url=https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/Rickenbacker-Johnny-Marr-Peter-Buck |magazine=Guitar Player |access-date=1 November 2024 |language=en |date=15 June 2023}}</ref> and Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Angle |first1=Brad |title=Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace Discusses Her Love of Rickenbackers, Her Musical Awakening |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/against-mes-laura-jane-grace-discusses-her-love-rickenbackers-her-musical-awakening |magazine=Guitar World |access-date=1 November 2024 |language=en |date=27 July 2017}}</ref> The 360 was once produced with slanted frets for "a natural finger angle," but negative response led Rickenbacker to switch back to perpendicular frets.
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==External links== *[http://www.rickenbacker.com/model.asp?model=360 360 model information at Rickenbacker International Corporation]
360 Category:Semi-acoustic guitars Category:1958 musical instruments
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