Brian Eno

In this interview with Chris Everard of Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music conducted in October 1984, Eno says, "I have two instruments which I love, one is a copy of a 1957 Stratocaster a Fernandez copy, it's a brilliant instrument, beautiful guitar, which Bob Quine, Lou Reed's guitar player, selected for me in New York. He'd already bought three or four Fernandez guitars himself, he's a Stratocaster fan.

"A Fernandez copy costs the same as a brand new Stratocaster, but they are perfect copies of, perfect copies - like they do a '53, a '57 and a '61 and I have the '57. It's an absolutely identical copy, you can't get a '57 Strat now that sounds good for less than 15 hundred dollars. My one's a beautiful, beautiful instrument."

When Laurie Anderson talked to Eno for Interview Magazine, they had the following exchange:

ANDERSON: So are the horns on Lux real?

ENO: No.

ANDERSON: I thought those were real, far away horns.

ENO: Yeah, it does sound like that. There are real strings in there, though they’re all played by one person, my friend Nell Catchpole. There’s also an instrument called the Moog Guitar. It’s a fantastic instrument.

ANDERSON: Oh, I’ve heard about that.

ENO: It’s an amazing instrument. It’s a completely new instrument, actually. It’s called a guitar, but the people who have started using it to do interesting things are moving far away from any character guitars have had traditionally. The only instruments on the album are piano, strings, this Moog Guitar, and some synthesizers. But the synthesizer sounds I was using are ones that I’ve been working on for quite a few years, and they can sometimes sound like they might be horns.

In a late 1970s studio image from Fugitivesounds, Brian Eno is pictured with a Teisco MJ-2L guitar, highlighting his use of this instrument during that period.

In this BBC-produced mini-documentary, Eno is sitting in his studio and pulls out a Stratacoustic to briefly perform the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" in an open tuning.