Wolf

Jerry Garcia's main guitar from 1973-1979

Jerry Garcia's "Wolf" Guitar (1973, serial no. D. Irwin 001) by Doug Irwin - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.36.59 by Eden, Janine and Jim)

• Wolf (1973, serial no. D. Irwin 001), Doug Irwin. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  "​"Wolf" was Jerry Garcia’s main guitar with the Grateful Dead from 1973 to 1979, a period when he was expanding his "astral" country and blues sound. He commissioned it in late 1972 after playing a guitar that luthier Doug Irwin had made for the manufacturer Alembic. The instrument’s cutting-edge active electronics gave Garcia a wide variety of tonal options; he described it as "twelve guitars in one." "Wolf" was also the first guitar on which Garcia experimented with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) implementation in the 1980s, a feature included on Irwin’s "Rosebud," another guitar that he custom built for Garcia. ",
  "​Technical Description: Quilted maple top and back with purpleheart core, five-piece fiddleback maple and purpleheart neck, ebony fingerboard; 25 in. scale; natural finish with maple and purpleheart binding; neck-through-body construction with ivory inlays to fingerboard, mother-of-pearl bird inlay at first fret, maple and purpleheart binding, player-side silver dot inlays with dyed holly marquetry; headstock with eagle inlay, metal plate on back reading “D IRWIN 001”; one single-coil and two humbucking pickups, three-way selector switch, three-way pickup coil switches, one master volume control and two tone controls, unity-gain buffer, effects loop output with on/off toggle; chrome-nickel Schaller tuners, knobs, and tailpiece with mother-of-pearl inlay, cartoon wolf inlay below tailpiece ",
  "​Artwork Details ",
  "​Title:  Wolf (serial no. D. Irwin 001) ",
  "​Artist: Doug Irwin ",
  "​Artist: Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (American, San Francisco, California 1942–1995 Forest Knolls, California) ",
  "​Date:   1973 ",
  "​Medium: Quilted and flamed maple, purpleheart (amaranth), vermillion, padauk, ebony, brass, chrome-nickel, mother-of-pearl, ivory, abalone, sterling silver, holly, plastic ",
  "​Dimensions: Length: 40 in. (101.6 cm) / Width: 14 in. (35.6 cm) / Depth: ~1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm) / Weight: 10-12 lbs. (4.4- 5.4 kg) ",
  "​Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ",
  "​Credit Line: Courtesy of Brian Halligan ",
  "​Provenance: Custom built for Jerry Garcia by Doug Irwin, 1973; Auctioned by Guernsey's to Daniel Pritzker, May 8, 2002; Auctioned by Guernsey's to Brian Halligan, May 31, 2017 / Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia "