The Rickenbacker 360 is an electric, semi-acoustic guitar made by

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, and part of the Rickenbacker 300 Series. The instrument incorporates many features standard on Rickenbacker guitars, including a three-ply maple/walnut neck, shallow

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angle, a thick rosewood fretboard finished with clear conversion varnish, and double truss rods. The 360 also features stereo or mono output, a body with Rickenbacker's "crescent moon" cutaway shape and rounded top edge and bound back, and an "R"-shaped trapeze tailpiece. A twelve-string version of the 360 (

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) is available. A three-pickup version of this model is also available, the 370.

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had been extensively using an earlier style 360/12 (closer resembling the 330/12 model), but retired it immediately from stage performances upon receiving the new style 360/12 (having rounded cutaways and top edge) in August 1965. The first recording by The Beatles of this new model 360/12 can be heard on the song

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, of

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, played a 12-string Rickenbacker 370. The six-string Rickenbacker 360 model is the principal guitar of artists such as

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and

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. The 360 was once produced with slanted frets for "a natural finger angle," but negative response led Rickenbacker to switch back to perpendicular frets.

Features

*No. Frets: 24 *Scale Length: *Neck Width at Nut: *Neck Width at 12th Fret: *Crown Radius: *Weight *Overall Length *Overall Width *Overall Depth

External links

360 model information at Rickenbacker International Corporation
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