I got the Tennessean first, because it is a more accessible guitar. “And if you look at his guitars, the first three that people were aware of were the ‘57 Duo Jet, the ‘62 Country Gentleman and the ‘63 Tennessean.

“When I first started pursuing Beatles guitars, my focus was on George’s instruments,” Sgro says. George Harrison used his ’63 model both live and in the studio, and it can also be seen in the movie Help! By 1962, it had been altered to feature a slimmer body, two single-coil Hilo’Tron pickups and painted-on f-holes. The Gretsch Tennessean debuted in 1958 as a single-cutaway, single-pickup offering.