I once called one of Prince's guitar makers on the phone (the one who created the symbol guitar), and he told me that he sized the guitar according to Prince's height.

This surprised me because I thought all guitars had a certain size, but seemingly he made the body smaller than usual.

I'm not sure if that has ever been mentioned somewhere, at least I never read about it, so I thought I would share it with you.

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There was a big bruhaha on here about this.

I've said before that Prince's guitars were 3/4 size, not full size, because of his stature. I cannot for the life of me find the article, but there's nowhere else I would have gotten such specific number like that. I've always heard his guitars were 3/4 the regular size. And really, if you look at the cloud guitar, compared to Andre's cloud bass, it's noticeably smaller. Look at Ron Wood playing that thing. He looks huge next to the blue angel.

I never noticed that, thanks for this info.

Do you have a photo of Ron Wood playing the cloud guitar? I didn't find any.

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TrivialPursuit said:

There was a big bruhaha on here about this.

I've said before that Prince's guitars were 3/4 size, not full size, because of his stature. I cannot for the life of me find the article, but there's nowhere else I would have gotten such specific number like that. I've always heard his guitars were 3/4 the regular size. And really, if you look at the cloud guitar, compared to Andre's cloud bass, it's noticeably smaller. Look at Ron Wood playing that thing. He looks huge next to the blue angel.

I noticed that too while watching Ron play during that concert. He looked so uncomfortable trying to play it.

His guitars were 3/4 size. His later strats were not. They look huge on him.

Cloud Guitar specs (per Dave Rusan, the guy who built it):

• All hard rock maple neck-though-body construction
• 24 3/4” scale length
• 12” fretboard radius
• 14-degree headstock angle
• 5-degree neck to body angle
• EMG active pickups, powered by a 9V battery in the control cavity, with an 81 humbucker in the bridge position, SA single-coil in the neck
• Schaller M6 tuners and bridge
• Brass nut
• One master volume, master tone and selector switch, with Fender Jazz bass knobs

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purpleemotions said:

Per this article:

http://www.premierguitar....tar?page=1

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crimesofparis said:

purpleemotions said:

I noticed that too while watching Ron play during that concert. He looked so uncomfortable trying to play it.

It could be he's having trouble because the center of gravity on that guitar has to take some getting used to.

Noi, it's because it's a mini guitar and Ron Wood isn't very good to begin with.

No, they're a standard size. The bodies might be small (especially on the cloud guitar) but the scale length of the Cloud is 24 3/4 inches, the same as any Gibson Les Paul.

Bass guitars have a much longer scale length (to make the lower pitch) so of course the Cloud bass looked larger than the guitar.

steakfinger said:

His guitars were 3/4 size. His later strats were not. They look huge on him.

Cloud Guitar specs (per Dave Rusan, the guy who built it):

• All hard rock maple neck-though-body construction
• 24 3/4” scale length
• 12” fretboard radius
• 14-degree headstock angle
• 5-degree neck to body angle
• EMG active pickups, powered by a 9V battery in the control cavity, with an 81 humbucker in the bridge position, SA single-coil in the neck
• Schaller M6 tuners and bridge
• Brass nut
• One master volume, master tone and selector switch, with Fender Jazz bass knobs

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That's not 3/4 size. 24 3/4" means 24.75 inches. That's a standard, full size guitar.

steakfinger said: