1976 Fender Stratocaster (black)

Steve Hackett has a Fender Stratocaster solid-body electric guitar from the 1970s (probably 1976 at the latest - exact year not known), which appears to be largely stock with traditional Fender pickups and a tremolo arm.

This was the guitar played on the Wind And Wuthering (1976) album and tour with Genesis - each of which would be his last with the group before his departure - followed his second solo album Please Don't Touch (1978). According to Steve: "Please Don't Touch featured deliberately excessive use of tremolo arm. I was thinking of the swirls that became prevalent in Van Gogh's later work as the madness really set in (his best stuff of course!)."

Also, the guitar once had a Gizmotron (more info here) fitted to the bridge.