The listing also states that the guitar comes with the straight jacket and white gloves worn by Van Halen in the music video. It is also in the original case with tour and Warner Brothers tags. The headstock is spray painted with Van Halen’s famed black and white abstract stripe design on a red ground. It was valued at between $2 and $3 million.Īccording to Sotheby’s, the guitar has a “poplar double-cut ‘Strat’ style body, the top routed for a single double-coil Seymour Duncan humbucker pickup, volume control, Floyd Rose bridge with whammy bar, unvarnished 22 fret maple bolt-on neck (stamped ‘UNK’ on heel) with Kramer sticker on headstock” and an unvarnished body. The minimum bid for the custom-made Kramer was $1.8 million.

“The legendary ‘Hot for Teacher’ stage used and filmed guitar, custom made by Paul Unkert of Kramer Guitars for Eddie Van Halen, including important innovations customized for Eddie’s evolving guitar technique,” the listing continues. On the site, the guitar is billed as, “One of the most iconic guitars of the MTV era as played by the most influential guitarist of his generation.” It is rounder on the thumb side and slimmer on the finger side - a very.

The lot closed on April 18th, according to the listing on Sotheby’s website. The Wolfgang is based on an asymmetric shape popularized by Eddie Van Halen.

The guitar sold for a whopping $3,932,000 during a recent auction at Sotheby’s. If you’ve ever wondered how much the guitar that Eddie Van Halen used in the iconic music video for Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” is worth, the answer is: a helluva lot. The post Eddie Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” Guitar Sells for Nearly $4 Million at Auction appeared first on Consequence.

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