LONDON -- The American singer St. Vincent has designed a new guitar and it's just for women.
St. Vincent, whose real name is Annie Clark, created the female-friendly guitar after finding it difficult to play certain guitars such as a "Sixties Strat" or "Seventies Les Paul," which she described as being impractical.
The multi-instrumentalist told Guitar World, "For me a guitar that is not too heavy is really important because I’m not a very big person.
"I would need to travel with a chiropractor on tour in order to play those guitars... because of their weight."
"They’re prohibitive, so this is a very light guitar and the weight is redistributed so that it has a thin waist. I was always finding when I was playing onstage and wearing various stage outfits the guitar would cut across one of the best features of the female body, which is your waist," she adds.
"I carry my guitar pretty high so I had to make all of these costumes based on the fact that you wouldn’t be able to see if I had a waist or not. I wanted to make something that looked good and not just on a woman, but any person. And again, I consulted Klause Nomi and some of my favorite Eighties designs to accommodate that."
Posting about the new guitar on Instagram, she said "There's room for a breast. Or Two."
It is with pride that I present the St. Vincent Signature @ernieball MusicMan Guitar. I wanted to design a tool that would be ergonomic*, lightweight, and sleek. So excited to be working with Ernie Ball. *There is room for a breast^ ^Or two A photo posted by St. Vincent (@st_vincent) on Aug 27, 2015 at 11:28am PDT
St. Vincent joins Steve Morse, John Petrucci and Albert Lee, who have all designed guitars with Ernie Ball.