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Andy Summers
The Police's guitarist, and the player who taught a generation of rock guitarists to leave space. Summers built his parts from close-voiced, ringing chord shapes -- added ninths instead of thirds -- and from an early-1960s Telecaster he modified with a Gibson humbucker in the neck, a phase switch and an onboard boost. On Synchronicity that guitar went into a Roland JC-120, whose stereo chorus became the sound of Every Breath You Take.
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