General info, amplification
  The band
  Electric strings
  Acoustic strings
  Percussion
  Piano
  Keyboards

Queen
  Smile
  Early shows I
  Early shows II
  Sheer Heart Attack
  A Night At The Opera
  Summer 1976
  A Day At The Races
  News Of The World
  Jazz
  Crazy tour
  The Game + Flash
  We Will Rock You
  Hot Space
  Montreux 1984
  The Works 1984
  The Works 1985
  Live Aid
  Montreux 1986
  Magic tour
  Freddie Mercury Tribute
  Queen + PR tour 2005
  Queen + PR tour 2006

Brian May
  Back To The Light
  Another World

Early Shows II (06.11.1972 - 12.05.1974)

The band

When the band got the contract with Trident Sound Productions, it was quite a turning point for their equipment. After they recorded the first album, the next concert (arranged by Trident in the famous Chelsea club Pheasantry) John had noticeable different instruments and Freddie for the first time in Queen's history played piano on stage. As Freddie didn't have a piano of his own, he just used what local promoters or concert organisers supplied.

Guitars

Brian bought a third Vox Ac30 amplifier for his Red Special, it cost him 60 pounds (they were sort of trendy by then). For the first time he used a back-up, which was a pre-CBS Fender Stratocaster, which he played, for instance, at the famous Rainbow gig on 31st of March 1974.

Bass guitars

John acquired a 1967 Fender Precision bass in sunburst finish, which he plugged to an Orange amplifier. Orange is a British brand which was quite popular at the time (Jimmy Page used some of those too, and remember that Queen were quite heavily influenced by Zeppelin in those days)

Percussion

Ludwig drum kit: 13" x 9" rack tom, two floor toms (16"x 16" & 18"x 16") and 26" x 14" bass drum. The bass drum logo was a black crest on a white background. A cowbell (probably New Era) was mixed in the kit (for Liar). Cymbals could be either Zildjian or Paiste. During some numbers Freddie played a New Era tambourine. Roger used four Shure mics: one for the bass-drum, two further ones placed panoramically to expand the drum-kit, and one for his vocals.

Pianos

	Freddie used what he was supplied with. At both Pheasantry and Marquee he used a beautiful white Bechstein D 9 ft 2 in Concert Grand, rented from Jacques Samuels piano store in Edgware Road, London (they'd got a contract with Trident Productions).
As for the rest of the concerts, they depended on whatever local promoters supplied them with (mostly Bechstein's, Steinway's, Yamaha's and Baldwin's). The piano was amplified by placing one or two mics at the end of the strings, that's why it'd got to be opened up. Freddie played it in Doin' All Right.

Vocals

During concerts where Freddie played piano, he'd got two mics depending on whether he was playing or not. Otherwise just one, and both Roger and Brian had one vocal mic each. They were all Shure.