Abraham Lincoln Stratocaster

Abraham Lincoln Stratocaster, hand-drawn of the 16th president of the United States playing his Signature Fender Stratocaster “Emancipator” in April, 1863, age 54.

Lincoln was self-educated and always highly inquisitive, and, like many people of his era, he had a keen interest in emerging technology.
He was the only American president to obtain a patent, for a device he designed to assist riverboats to cross sandbars.

Lincoln, a talented “chicken-picker” of guitar strings, passed the time at the War Department Telegraph Office, playing his guitar while awaiting responses from his telegraph dispatches to his generals.
He found the telegraph office a useful retreat from the much busier White House. The office also had great acoustics which gave his guitar a warm tone while plugged into his 20 watt, Pro Amp Fender Tweed.

According to David Homer Bates, Lincoln wrote the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation at a desk in the telegraph office in 1862.

The basic foundation for chicken pickin’ on guitar revolves around these things: hybrid picking, double stops, pitch bends, muted notes, and mixing open strings with fretted notes.
Hybrid picking is where you have a flatpick in between your thumb and index finger, and you use your middle and ring fingers to pick notes.
Use the flatpick to strum the bass notes, and the other fingers to pluck the treble ones. One exercise is to play arpeggios where you pluck the low string with your pick, and in succesion pluck the other notes with your fingers.
From there you want to start combing all that together, so you can pluck the bass line with your pick, and then work in your double stops, pitch bends and “clucks.” After that it’s all dexterity and speed.

The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.
The Proclamation had the effect of changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free.

Lincoln had a love for opera and theater.
His favortie tunes: “Lincoln And Liberty” by Jessie Hutchison, “The Battle Cry Of Freedom”, “We Are Coming Father”, “Battle Hymn Of The Republic”.

Lincoln was assassinated at 10:15pm on April 14, 1865 while attending Ford’s Theatre’s “Our American Cousin” with his wife Mary, by John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Confederate spy.
After remaining in a coma for eight hours, Lincoln died at 7:22am in the morning on April 15th. Lincoln was 56.

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