Found this yesterday whilst ogling over guitars (again...)
http://www.fender.com/features/gilmour/guitar.php

This led me to read some rather interesting articles about one of the influential members of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour. So much so that I am spending this week doing some tinkering and deconstruction of my own, especially the track Marooned from the album "The Division Bell"

About the track
It is an instrumental track on the 1994 album The Division Bell. In watching the YouTube videos I downloaded yesterday its clear is quite a heavily improvised piece, and the key factor is its played through a pitch shift pedal (to avoid tuning the guitar up to a nonstandard tuning) to hit those high "guitar crying" notes. So ja, am messing around to see if I can learn to play it, seeing I've been in quite a funk for the last 6 months playing Andy Summers' stuff which breaks my hands! Of course, when I take delivery of my new Fender Strat they better install a whammy bar so I can do the necessary bends to match what you hear on the record. (makes note to self to tell music store)

About the Black Strat
Its a heavily modified Fender reissue Stratocaster that David bought in New York somewhere in 1970. He painted it black, including the pickguard. It had, at one time, been fitted with a thrid party tremolo arm, which necessitated the removal of some wood. The proper Fender tremolo unit has been since fitted and the missing wood replaced with new wood. Without spoiling it too much, you can read the full details on the website.

Interesting indeed... I consider those albums to be Gilmour's finest work, its quite apparent that Roger Waters was more of an interference with albums prior to A Momentary Lapse of Reason than anything else. It is quite apparent that Gilmour's contribution to Pink Floyd's music and overall sound is huge!

What is awesome though is YouTube.. that is a guitarist's resource #1, I've found videos there of virtually every artist, with a clear enough view of them playing. That's how I learnt to play Message In a Bottle by The Police, and only afterwards worked out which chords they actually were and then made subsequent notation in my music book. By going through it in freeze frame, drawing the chord shape, and then doing it and practising 

I was messing about last night, definitely need new strings  intonation is out by a semitone down there...Gonna stop on the way home if time permits and go get a pack of XL's and try again.