Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock Stratocaster

Hendrix played this Stratocaster at Woodstock in August 1969. After his death it passed to his drummer Mitch Mitchell, who kept it for some twenty years before selling it at Sotheby's in London in 1990, where the Italian broadcaster Gabriele Ansaloni bought it for £198,000, then a record for a guitar. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, later bought it from Ansaloni for about $770,000 for the museum he founded in Seattle, now the Museum of Pop Culture.

1. August 1969

   Played by Hendrix at WoodstockA

2. 1970–1990

   Kept by Mitch Mitchell after Hendrix's deathA

3. 1990

   Sold at Sotheby's, London, to Gabriele Ansaloni for £198,000A

   Then a record for a guitar.

4. Date not recorded

   Bought by Paul Allen for about $770,000A

   For the Seattle museum now called the Museum of Pop Culture.

Used by · 1968–1970

Jimi HendrixA

Owned by · 1970–1990

Mitch MitchellA

Owned by

Paul AllenAmedium confidence

Performed at · August 1969

WoodstockA

Made by · 1968

Fender Musical Instruments CorporationA

Exhibited at

Museum of Pop CultureAmedium confidence

1. A

   Guitar World, "What happened to Jimi Hendrix's Stratocaster guitars?"

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