Jon Anderson's Gear

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In this interview with Gibson, Anderson states: "When I started playing electric guitar, Steve [Howe, guitarist for Yes] gave me a Les Paul Junior."

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Jon Anderson uses a Makala Ukulele in this performance. The headstock and brand name can be seen clearly at 0:05.

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at 3:14 in the video, Anderson is clearly shown playing the pedals (with his hands). It is mounted on a stand so that he can easily reach it. You can hear him playing the melody in this section on it, and it looks like he's using quite a bit of force to play it.

A user in this reddit thread confirms that this is the indeed the pedal that he is using here: https://www.reddit.com/r/yesband/comments/ekp4k8/does_anyone_know_which_keyboard_jon_anderson_is/fdd41rd/

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Jon Anderson can be seen holding a Puerto Rican Cuatro at 1:51, and can be seen playing it at 2:37.

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Anderson can be seen playing the Atari Hotz Box at 4:58 in this video.

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This Sound on Sound article states, "Once complete, it became his session string synth, appearing on a Who's Who of late '70s albums, including releases from artists such as Mike Oldfield, Sally Oldfield and Jon Anderson of Yes," about Ken Freeman's String Machine.

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Anderson can be seen in this Pinterest page with a Rickenbacker 450/12.

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On this site, there is a photo showing Anderson with a custom-painted Martin 000C-16SGTNE.

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At 1:23 of this video, Anderson can be seen playing a Gibson K2 Mandocello.

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On the McNally website, there is a link showing Jon Anderson playing a strumstick. The caption reads "The legendary voice of Yes, and beyond, plays a beautiful song he wrote with the Strumstick, Never Ever."

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GuitarPlayer.com states: "Armed with a MIDI-equipped Martin Backpacker guitar, two Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizers, Yamaha EX5 and ES Motif synthesizers, and a Kurzweil K2600 keyboard, Anderson is criss-crossing the globe, performing Yes and solo works in Ray Davies’ Storyteller format, and enjoying the freedom and flexibility of his one-man performance so much that he plans on making it a core component of his career in the future."

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GuitarPlayer.com states: "Armed with a MIDI-equipped Martin Backpacker guitar, two Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizers, Yamaha EX5 and ES Motif synthesizers, and a Kurzweil K2600 keyboard, Anderson is criss-crossing the globe, performing Yes and solo works in Ray Davies’ Storyteller format, and enjoying the freedom and flexibility of his one-man performance so much that he plans on making it a core component of his career in the future."

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Anderson can be seen at :07 and :10 of this promotional video for the Anderson Ponty Band playing a McNally Electric Strumstick ESS.

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On the official Yamaha site, Jon Anderson's gear list includes a P-90 piano.

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The official Yamaha site states on its Artist page for Jon Anderson that the singer uses a Clavinova CLP 995.

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The official Yamaha site states on its Artist page for Anderson that he uses a Yamaha RS 7000.

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The official Yamaha site states on its Artist page that Anderson uses a Yamaha AW4416.

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In this interview with Jon Anderson, there is a photo of him singing and playing a RhythmTech Ergonomic Tambourine.

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At 1:27 of this video, Anderson can be seen in a shot playing a Baglama.

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This Yes tour book states that Anderson uses a Martin 0018.

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In this image Anderson can be seen playing a precision bass. It is unknown if it is an official fender but it is definitely a precision style

Edit: I can confirm that it is an official fender as it was used in this video 'https://youtu.be/tGyu27tbtpc'

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In this video of yes playing gates of delirium, Jon can be seen playing a twin pickup melody maker

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Anderson can be seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Special Double-Cut in this live photo.

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Anderson can be seen playing a Hofner 500/1 bass in this live photo.

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In this 5/8/23 live preformance of "Starship Trooper" in Valkenburg, The Netherlands, Anderson can be seen accompanied by The Paul Green Rock Academy, playing a Martin SC-13E Acoustic with leaf/vine artwork on it's front.

The SC-13E is identifable by it's offset body-shape (which is unusual compared to C.M. Martin's other traditionally-constructed models).

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