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In a January 1983 interview with Guitar Player Magazine, responding to the question of whether he owned any unusual acoustic guitars, May was quoted as stating the following: "Yeah, I have a very old, cheap Hairfred which makes that buzzy sound that's on 'Jealousy' and 'White Queen.' I've never seen another one like it. I made it sound like a sitar by taking off the original bridge and putting a hardwood bridge on. I chiseled away at it until it was flat and stuck a little piece of fretwire material underneath. The strings just very gently lay on the fretwire, and it makes that sitar-like sound." This spawned many guitar-playing fans' search for the mysterious Hairfred brand - later, with the help of the book Brian May's Red Special, it became clear that the magazine had misquoted him; the guitar is actually a German Hallfredh, probably dating from the 1920s or 1930s.
The guitar is of a Wandergitarre type design, similar in style to that referred to as a ‘parlor guitar’ by American vintage guitar collectors. It features an angled cut at end of fingerboard, reminiscent of designs by Johann Georg Stauffer (C. F. Martin's mentor) and his son Johann Anton Stauffer.
Brian May obtained the Hallfredh from his schoolfriend Dave Dilloway, prior to the formation of their band 1984 (in which Dilloway played bass). He exchanged it for his Egmond Toledo acoustic (his first guitar, bought by his parents for his 7th, or 8th birthday).
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