Ed Sheeran's Steel-string Acoustic Guitars

In this photo, Ed Sheeran uses a customized Lowden 35 Series guitar. He can be seen playing it live on the song Lego House and while singing with Wayne Rooney.

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The article was written by Trevor Dawkins, Ed's sound engineer.

"Ed Sheeran essentially plays two Martin Guitar models. The larger models are a pair of 00-28VS customs that Martin put together for us. They’re absolute beauts: figured Koa back and sides, the gecko inlays on the neck (copies of one of Ed’s tattoos . . . ), and the inlaid koa “X” logo on the soundboard. These are fitted with Fishman Matrix Infinity electronics and are used for Ed's acoustic ballad-type songs." From watching live videos, Ed has 4 copies of this guitar. One has black bridge pins, another has white, and the other two have no gecko inlays on the neck.

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In this Instagram photo shared by Ed Sheeran September 2013, he shows a collection of Martin guitars which he has toured with over seven years. The left-most guitar is a Martin Steel-String Backpacker Acoustic Guitar. He captions the photo, "7 years of touring"

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On May 10, 2012, Ed Sheeran was seen playing a Takamine GD20-NS Acoustic Guitar while interacting with fans after a show, as captured in a YouTube video by Rhay.

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In this video you can see Ed Sheeran and Passenger playing Hearts On Fire with Michael Rosenberg's (Passenger's real name) favorite choice of guitar, the Gibson J45.

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Photo from Concert at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on April 14, 2018. This guitar has been a part of Ed's rotation since the beginning of the 2018 leg of the Divide Stadium Tour. It is definitely larger than the Wee Lowden WL model, I believe it is an S body size. Looks like Cedar, or Redwood top? Very cool orange "Divide" album art.

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Ed Sheeran used the lowden WL-25 during the production of his album Divide

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April 13, 2016 - Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Eric Clapton with Ed Sheeran - I Will Be There

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Ed Sheeran used the Lowden The Baritone acoustic guitar during his performance of "BLOW" at Messegelände, Hannover, as seen in the YouTube video by Martin Cox.

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