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

News Of The World Tour (11.11.1977 - 13.05.1978)

Several changes as in almost every tour. The acoustic set was longer, there were no cowbells or banjos used anymore, Roger played a timpani solo and Freddie finally got to buy his own piano.

Percussion

26" x 18" Bass Drum, 14" x 10" Concert Tom - mounted on separate Tom Stand, 15" x 14" Rack Tom, 16" x 15" Rack Tom, 18" x 16" Floor Tom, 20" x 17" Floor Tom, 14" x 6" Ludwig Classic Snare Drum and 14" & 15" Ludwig Timbales which he used on Get Down Make Love. He also had a Slingerland Snare which used sometimes instead of the Ludwig one (Slingerland drums are the ones he used for the Spread Your Wings video). Freddie and Roger played tambourines (New Era and Ludwig), Freddie also had red maracas for the intro of '39 and John hit a Ludwig triangle in Killer Queen. Roger hit a Paiste Gong after BoRhap and and had a couple of Ludwig Timpani for the 'instrumental inferno'. For the American tour (1977) the bass drum logo remained the same as in ANATO/ADATR tours (white crest on a black background), for the 1978 European tour Roger replaced it by the "robot" logo. For the rest of the decade (minus Jazz tour), the bass drum with the crest logo would be played only in '39.

Bass guitars

Fender Precision '68 model for all songs where John played except '39 and Melancholy Blues where he used a fretless type.

Guitars

Brian still used the Red Special for everything except for the acoustic set (in which he used the Ovation Pacemaker 12 string) and My Melancholy Blues (in which he simply took a rest). The back-up was a natural finish John Birch Red Special replica.

Piano

Freddie bought the Steinway D Concert Grand four days before the tour started and used it for every gig onwards - except Chicago, where for technical reasons he played another Steinway (not his own). Initially they had many problems with its amplification but they solved it for the '78 leg by fitting it with helpinstill.

Vocals

Shure mics for everyone (Fred and Rog had two each). Freddie's voice used an Eventide harmoniser in some parts like the interlude of Get Down Make Love.