RIGHTON STRAPS John Lennon's Vox Python guitar strap

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A guitar strap that might currently seem to belong to a Heavy Metal or Trash or Hard Rock band, but no, this guitar strap is actually from 1964 and was designed for John Lennon by the folks at VOX who provided the Beatles with amplifiers and other equipment during those years.

Vox Python guitar strap, the origin

According to the book "Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio," Dick Denney and Tom Jennings, but mainly Denney, designed a guitar strap at Lennon's request that was made like a python snake skin (hence the name) and featured scales. And so began the work that started with a prototype made of brass that apparently fell short. For the second strap, they decided to lengthen it and make it in chrome.

This is the origin of the strap, and knowing how difficult it is to make a strap of this kind, one has to take their hat off to Dick and Tom. As Denney recounts in the book, two straps were made, one in black with chrome metal parts and the other in brown leather with gold scales (Apparently used by John Lee Hooker on some occasion). When they were ready, they took them to the Beatles, and Lennon kept the black and chrome Python strap.

Features :

Color: Black
Material: Synthetic, animal components free (Vegan)
Adjustment: Buckle
Large Range Adjustment: 35,43" (105 cm) - 59" (135 cm)
Width: 6cm - 2.3''
Weight 242 gr