Gilmour's Gibson J-200 on 'Comfortably Numb' – verse fingerpicking and strums, captured with Neumann U-67s

The acoustic guitar in the verses of “Comfortably Numb” is David Gilmour’s 1969 Gibson J-200. He used it for both the fingerpicked pattern and the light strums. That big, warm body is unmistakable – J-200s have a deep, round low end and shimmering treble that cuts through without being bright. Gilmour had owned this particular J-200 since the late Sixties and