Golden Earring – Switch
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1975 album Switch.
Music from Switch
Artists on Switch
Gear Used On Switch
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Golden Earring – Switch (1975). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Guitars used by George Kooymans on Switch
Coral D3N12 Scorpion 12-String
George started using a 3 pickup Danelectro/Coral Scorpion 12-string Guitar sometime towards the mid 1970's, It may have been under another brand name only availible outside the USA though. It's visible in the music video for "Instant Poetry" and probably used on the Switch album in 1975 as well. I have also seen Barry Hay (lead singer) use this guitar around that time as well.
This is an incredibly rare guitar and hard to find a good picture of online. What determined that this was a D3N12 scorpion is that it has no vibrato and three pickups, rather than the more common 2 pickup model hardtail, or the three pickup model with a vibrato.
Here's a picture of George with it in the 70's - http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9693902/250full-george-kooymans.jpg
