David Bowie

In this video of "Rebel Rebel", Bowie can be seen playing a Hagstrom I Kent PB-24-G at 3:06.

Well, he holds it in his arms.. . Used on the album "Heathen". Photo by Myriam Santos.

David Bowie played a heavily modified natural finish Fender Telecaster during the 1976 Isolar tour. This Tele had a standard bridge pickup, a single coil middle pickup, and a humbucker neck pickup. It also had three knobs and did not have a standard three-way switch but instead had three individual mini switches.

David Bowie can be seen in this photo, standing beside Marc Bolan, playing a Fender Stratocaster.

David Bowie can be seen in this photo playing a Gibson Les Paul.

In this photo, Bowie is seen playing a Supro Dual Tone.

In this picture from 1972 David Bowie can be seen with a Fender Jaguar.

Launched in 1971 as Sennheiser’s flagship dynamic the MD441 has remained in production ever since. Famous users include David Bowie, Stevie Nicks and Elton John. It is a superb example of German design and engineering, and even today has few competitors.

Used on the album Low, song: Art Decade. "the drum machine used at the time was Bowie’s own Roland TR-77"

Bowie liked the look of the guitar and requested his own from Steinberger. Steinberger had another L-series that was used for the test run of the chrome body treatment which he sent to Bowie. The Bowie guitar did not have a Mylar- covered fretboard and was a playable guitar. Bowie used the guitar for the 1991-1992 Tin Machine tour and during the recording sessions for 1991 album "Tin Machine II." The guitar is accompanied by a letter from the consignor, who worked with Bowie from 1987 through 2000, a video of the Tin Machine Live featuring Bowie playing this guitar and a DVD of the video “You Belong In Rock and Roll.”

In this performance of the song "Sense of Doubt", Bowie can be seen playing a Chamberlin M1 throughout.

According to Beyerdynamic, Bowie is using a Beyerdynamic M88 in this video for Let's Dance.

Bowie can be seen in this photo with a Vox Mark XII.

In the photo, David Bowie is seen playing a Kramer Ferrington KFS-2 acoustic-electric guitar.

David Bowie plays an acoustic Espana 12-string guitar to promote the album Space Oddity in 1969 in London. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images

In this interview with Tony Visconti from Sound on Sound, the producer states, "David bought himself the Manley Gold Reference stereo mic about 10 or 12 years ago — he'd kept it in storage, and when he asked me if I'd be interested in trying it out, I said 'sure'. I love anything made by Manley, and so we took the mic out of mothballs for Heathen, and it worked so great that we used it again on this album."

Used as the vocal microphone in Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture

In this picture from the music video of his 2013 song Valentine's Day, David Bowie is playing a Hohner G2T, as is visible by the Hohner logo just below his right hand.

Producer Tony Visconti states in this article that Bowie uses a Korg Trinity.

In the Guitar.com article "Chord Clinic: How to Play David Bowie-style Chords (Part Two)," David Bowie is seen playing a Gibson Flying V, highlighting its role in his distinctive sound.

In this 1991 Brian Aris photograph, Bowie is posing with a pair of metal Steinberger guitars that were made for him by Ned Steinberger.

More information is available about the guitar at this auction website, which tells the story of the guitar's creation. "With graphite and carbon fiber body and faceplate, with micrometer style tuners for use with double ball strings and double EMG pickups. The guitar is one of two custom chrome-finished guitars created by Ned Steinberger.[My emphasis added, as it explains both guitars in the photo.] Steinberger sent Bowie another L-series that had been used for the test run of the chrome body treatment... Bowie used the guitar for the 1991-1992 Tin Machine tour and during the recording sessions for the 1991 album Tin Machine II."

"Visconti had no shortage of tricks up his sleeve for the production of the album. . . . He was the proprietor of Neumann U-87 microphones, often using multiple at a time to capture not just vocals but instruments as well as the space of the Hansa hall. . . . Taking full advantage of the large spaces at Hansa, the producer used three microphones to capture vocal takes, one close, one at 15 feet and one at 20 feet."

In this picture Bowie can be seen playing this guitar.

In a 2000 performance of "Ashes To Ashes," David Bowie is seen using a Shure SM58 microphone.

David Bowie frequently used the Shure Beta 58A microphone during his concerts, as highlighted in an ABC News article.

An ARP Solina String Ensemble can be seen sitting atop David Bowie's piano in this photo.

This guitar owned by Bowie is exposed at the Hard Rock Café, Warsaw

In this photoshoot Bowie can be seen with this guitar.

In this image, Bowie can be seen playing a National Resophonic Student Model 1133.

Bowie can be seen with a Dan Armstrong London guitar in this photo.