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Tiger

Promotional poster for Tiger guitars,ꦿ I.C. Product꧟ions, 1991

Poster (34.25 x 19.5’’). Large photographic image of the front and back of Garcia’s Tiger, signed by Jerry Garcia and inscribed by Doug Irwin to Ram Rod in the lower right corner; near fine.

Signed by Garcia and Irwin

Garcia’s Tiger was his primary guitar for the decade spanning 1979 to 1989. He commissioned the guitar from Doug Irwin in 1973, immediately after getting Wolf: “he told [Irwin], ‘don’t hold back.’ He was told to make it the way he thought was best, and not worry about cost. Irwin obliged, and six ♑years later Tiger hit the stage and became his most-played guitar. Named after the tiger inlay just below the tailpiece, the body features several layers of wood laminated together face-to-face in a configuration referred to as a "hippie sandwich." The combination of heavy wo💫ods (cocobolo, vermilion, maple), plus solid brass binding and hardware resulted in a 13.5 lb. instrument.”

“Jerry loved Tiger for the wealth of sounds it gave him to play with. In one interview he said, ‘[There’s] like twelve discreet possible voices that are all pretty different…That gives me a lot of vocabulary of basically different tones. And that’s just the electronics; the rest of it is touch. I mostly work off the middle pickup…and I can get almost any sound I want out of th🧸at’” (//jerrygarcia.com/guitars/).