Can anyone tell me the guitar he's playing?

Question

What guitar is Ian Anderson playing here? It's a normal acoustic, but its smaller. any help? brand a or name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qPibouSrKA&mode=related&search=Ian%20Anderson%20Orchestral%20Jethro%20Tull%20Aqualung

Answer 1

I can't actually access the video here at work, but is it one of the clips from The Orchestral Jethro Tull? {Where Ian is playing with the full orchestra?}

If so, then I think it is a custom-built guitar, and...

... I just found this on the Jethro Tull website :~

"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."

It appears Andrew Manson is a UK maker of custom acoustic guitars.

Answer 2

That is not a "normal" acoustic - its a special guitar designed to sound and look more like a Renaissance lute, and is probably a custom-made guitar judging by the decorative design. Ian Anderson would have the financial wherewithal to have something like this built and as I have never seen anything close to it I'm putting out my "guesstimate" that it is a custom made guitar commissioned by Ian Anderson. It might also be by the same maker of guitar as Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac.

Answer 3

If you can find one out there at all (which you probably can't, because its more than likely custom made) but run a search on musicians friend or some other big music website for a classical backpacker guitar maybe...i dont know thats honestly one of the first questions like this to stump me......props