The rare Hutchins five-neck guitars, each weighing two-and-a-half-stone, will go under the hammer at Gardiner Houlgate’s specialist guitar auction in March.
Stretching over four days, the auction will feature guitars owned by the late Jeff Beck, Gordon Giltrap, Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy and Steve Diggle of Buzzcocks.
Auctioneer Luke Hobbs said: “You need to be in pretty good physical shape to play one of these instruments – and a sturdy guitar strap.
Most players are happy with one, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page famously had two, while Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora had three.
Its creator, Sussex-based Gary Hutchins called it “the guitar that should never have been made”.
