Ian Anderson

Anderson states in this interview that he uses a Brook 3/4 Scale Parlour guitar.

Anderson states on his official site that he used a Martin 0-45.

"Around this time, I coveted the Shure microphones used by some of the professional bands around the Blackpool area. Trading in the Fender, I acquired the services of a Shure Unidyne Three and, to pad out the part exchange, a shiny Selmer Gold Seal flute, in neat carry case with no playing instructions; not even in Japanese."

Anderson states that he used a Martin 016-NY guitar on his official site.

According to his official site, Anderson had a white Fender Stratocaster guitar.

"If you're a musician as well as an engineer, producer, tape op. and tea maker (which you have to be if you're working on your own), you do want something that's easy to work, and having looked at all the in-line mixers, and bearing in mind that I was used to working on the biggest MCI desk ever made at Maison Rouge, it was fun to sit down with a simple, split console like this Soundcraft Series 2400.

Anderson states on his official site that he's owned a Gibson SG.

According to Anderson's official website, Jethro Tull used Vox AC-30s.

Anderson states on the official Jethro Tull site: "When I first took up the instrument, by playing into the same mic as I used for vocals – the Shure model 57"

"For a while I switched to 600 series flutes by Pearl, a Japanese company, and then more recently in the early nineties to Sankyo Silversonics and the US-made 2100 and 3100 Powell flutes. I use the Powells for recording and take a Sankyo and a Powell on tour. The intonation and sonority of the Powell is better, but the Sankyo blows more loudly and easily, especially when the player’s lips are fatigued and thus less articulate. "

"For a while I switched to 600 series flutes by Pearl, a Japanese company, and then more recently in the early nineties to Sankyo Silversonics and the US-made 2100 and 3100 Powell flutes. I use the Powells for recording and take a Sankyo and a Powell on tour. The intonation and sonority of the Powell is better, but the Sankyo blows more loudly and easily, especially when the player’s lips are fatigued and thus less articulate. "

Anderson states in his official site that he's used a Shure Unidyne III Microphone.

"No longer playing the guitar, since Mick Abrahams had by then joined the band, I rounded out the musical trio of ’68 instruments with a Hohner blues harmonica, the Marine Band single reed version which, as I quickly learned, you had to suck more than blow to get the blues thing happening." - Ian Anderson.

The official Jethro Tull site states that Anderson uses a Boss TU-12 Tuner.

Anderson can be seen in this photo playing a Claghorn.

"I still use my vocal mic (Shure Beta 58)..." Ian Anderson says, on the official Jethro Tull site.

Anderson states on the official Jethro Tull site, "I currently use a new model of microphone from Shure – the WL51 – which is a cardioid pattern lavalier-type mic designed for sound re-inforcement of actors’ voices in live stage work. It does require a top-end boost as well as low-end roll-off to sound natural when positioned close to the embouchure hole."

Anderson can be seen at :26 with a Paul Hathway M-4 Mandolin.

Ian Anderson's album "Walk Into Light" was mastered on a Sony PCM-F1 U-matic, according to the liner notes.

"For a while I switched to 600 series flutes by Pearl, a Japanese company, and then more recently in the early nineties to Sankyo Silversonics and the US-made 2100 and 3100 Powell flutes. I use the Powells for recording and take a Sankyo and a Powell on tour. The intonation and sonority of the Powell is better, but the Sankyo blows more loudly and easily, especially when the player’s lips are fatigued and thus less articulate. "

"For a while I switched to 600 series flutes by Pearl, a Japanese company, and then more recently in the early nineties to Sankyo Silversonics and the US-made 2100 and 3100 Powell flutes. I use the Powells for recording and take a Sankyo and a Powell on tour. The intonation and sonority of the Powell is better, but the Sankyo blows more loudly and easily, especially when the player’s lips are fatigued and thus less articulate. "

In this GuitarGeek rig diagram, made by Adam Cooper, Ian's rig includes a Zoom 504 acoustic preamp.

Ian Anderson can be seen throughout the 2005 Estival Jazz Festival Concert playing a very small, narrow bodied acoustic guitar that has a very impressive and remarkably full sound due to the fishman piezo-electric transducer (pickup) it has. A bit of searching turned up this bit of info from Ian himself posted at jtull.com under "Ians Instruments" -

During the eighties, I switched to guitars from Andrew Manson, an English >luthier, who works in Devon producing hand-made guitars for aficionados of >acoustic instruments. My instruments are based on traditional designs by the >Martin Company as well as on the ideas of Andy and myself, and we have >come up with modern variations on the theme, giving a compact guitar with >the resonance and playability associated previously with the big “jumbo” style >guitars favoured by Country artists. The sexy little parlour guitars are not at all >common in pop and rock music: indeed, I am probably one of the very few to >use them. The instrument currently on tour with me is the smallest ever! It is a >3/4 size parlour guitar based on a French design of 150 years ago. I sent >Andrew Manson the drawings and measurements and even he was surprised >at how well it played and sounded, especially fitted with one of the Fishman >transducer pick-ups which I have been using since the late eighties. (https://www.andymanson.com/parlour-guitars)