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	Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gibson was considered a bit eccentric and there has been some question over the years as to whether or not he suffered from some sort of mental illness.
		The late 1950s saw a number of innovative new designs including the eccentrically-shaped Gibson Explorer and Flying V and the semi-acoustic ES-335, and the introduction of the "humbucker" pickup.
		Other instrument manufacturers which are owned by Gibson include Kramer and Steinberger guitars, as well as Tobias which specializes in bass guitars, Baldwin which makes pianos, Oberheim which makes effects processors and MIDI gear, and Slingerland drums.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibson (744 words)

	ELECTRIC GUITAR HISTORY
		Although the inspiration for the Gibson guitar came from Les Paul and was ultimately named after him, the design for the solid body guitar actually came from the companies new president Ted McCarty, and more closely resembled 1800's model Gibsons than the ES-150.
		Within a year Vivi-Tone failed, but the internal seeds had been planted at Gibson, the electric Spanish was the future of the guitar and the failed Vivi-Tone would go on to inspire Gibson to create the electric guitar that would make Guitar History and revolutionize the instrument, the ES-150.
		Gibson was less than enthusiastic about the prospects of a solid body guitar, convinced that consumers would not accept it.
	www.guitardomain.com /Electric-Guitar-History.html (1136 words)

	Folkway Music -- Instrument Sales - Gibson Guitars
		Gibson's first flat top was not the L-1 that Robert Johnson made famous, but GY model (or Army Navy) which predated the flat-top L series guitars by some 10 years.
		Martin Gibson Other Acoustic Guitars Resonators and Steels Mandolins and Banjos Archtop Guitars
		Prior to these, Gibson flat-tops were small-bodied, H-braced, 12 fret guitars with huge necks and thumpy voices.
	www.folkwaymusic.com /instruments/gibson.html (3999 words)

	Gibson ES-150 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gibson Guitar Corporation's ES-150 guitar is generally recognized as the world's first commercially feasible electric guitar.
		The ES stands for Electric Spanish, and it was designated 150 because it cost $150 along with an EH-150 amplifier and a cord.
		After its introduction in 1936, it immediately became popular in jazz orchestras of the period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibson_ES-150 (170 words)

	Phil's Guitars: Selected Vintage Parts
		Gibson Les Paul Special Reissue pickguard The single-cut Special with wrapover bridge, ths was factory routed to fit over the "beauty rings" that went around P-90 pickups (the people that know about these know what I mean).
		Gibson Les Paul Standard tuners Complete set of 6, original early single row double ring, keystone buttons are in excellent original condition with no rot or shrinkage.
		Gibson prototype dreadnaught body All solid woods, beautiful rosewood sides and back, spruce top, multi-bound top and back, square-shouldered design.
	www.philsguitars.com /parts.html (1644 words)

	sound, technique, instruments
		Several years later, Thomas made some concerts in France, and especially a concert in Charleville where he broke his ES 150 Gibson.
		The first one, a Gibson ES 125, appears several times on the photos, which makes me think that it was not an occasional one and probably Rene's guitar for a while.
		This one is a Gibson ES 300 that was made between 1948 and 1952.
	thomasia.free.fr /sound.htm (603 words)

	Vintage Guitars Info - Gibson collecting vintage gibson guitars
		By the late 1960's, Gibson starting using tuners with the "Gibson Deluxe" name on them, but these were actually made by Kluson.
		Gibson guitars usually have a FON (Factory Order Number), a serial number, or both (but sometimes neither!).
		Gibson flat tops of the 1960's and 1970's seem to be inferior in tone and construction to the same models of the 1950's.
	www.provide.net /~cfh/gibson.html (8569 words)

	Archtop Guitar Gallery
		GIBSON Trini Lopez Deluxe… A 1967 Deluxe model in a bright cherry sunburst finish on the quilted maple top, back and sides.
		Gibson's top of the line 16” Red Mahogany sunburst finish archtop guitar from the early part of the last century.
		Gibson's top of the line archtop guitar from the turn of the century.
	www.guitars.net /elarcgal.htm (8075 words)

	Big Road Blues Discussion Forum - BRB Trivia- November 2004
		The first Spanish style elctric was the Gibson ES-150 hollowbody intoduced in 1936 with a pickup nickmaned the 'Charlie Christian' after he popularized the electric solo during big band performances.
		Gibson designer Lloyd Loar experimented with electric guitars in the 1920s but the company felt they were not commercially viable.
		The Rickenbacker ES was a hollow body with a flat top, upper bout F holes and a single horseshoe magnetic pickup.
	www.bigroadblues.com /dcforum/DCForumID3/545_3.html (522 words)

	The GIBSON & Baldwin Player - Rick Vito Sliding 'Like a Rock'
		His Band Box Boogie CD features a vintage Gibson ES-150, an f-hole archtop with a single P-90 pickup, for electric finger-picking parts, and a recent turquoise-finished Epiphone Emperor Regent, also an f-hole archtop, that he plays acoustically and also with a floating DeArmond pickup.
		The warm, full guitar sound comes from the single P-90 pickup of Vito's 1956 Gibson Les Paul TV model.
		Vito's guitar arsenal today includes an original Flying V and an original Explorer that he found in a bar.
	player.gibson.com /apr03/vito.html (1438 words)

	P421'S TURBO GUITAR : P421'S CAR-GUITAR WEBSITE
		Gibson's top models sported McCarty's new tune-o-matic bridge, which was introduced on the Les Paul Custom in 1954 and is still the standard Gibson electric guitar bridge.
		Gibson's close relationship with musicians is manifest in endorsement models from King, Atkins and jazz greats Howard Roberts and Herb Ellis, plus new Les Pauls made to the personal specifications of rock stars Jimmy Page and Joe Perry.
		Under the aggressive leadership of company president Ted McCarty, Gibson debuted two new concepts in 1949 with the ES-5, the first three-pickup guitar, and the ES-175, the first guitar with a sharply pointed cutaway bout.
	www.freewebs.com /p421/gibsonepiphone.htm (2178 words)

	Charlie Christian Sound
		The ES-150 led inevitably to the development of the cutaway ES-175 which remains the most popular and versatile arch-top hollow-body electric guitar in the Gibson line.
		Though there are sketchy accounts of Christian using Harmony, Vega and National guitars, his primary guitars were Gibson ES (Electric Spanish) models manufactured in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
		Christian also played the fancier Gibson ES-250 guitar.
	www.riffinteractive.com /expguitar/charlieChristian_Sound.htm (651 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Brand Pages
		While models such as the Gibson ES-150 Charlie Christian, Fender Broadcaster, and Gibson ES-335 have achieved recognition and are worthy of Hall of Fame status based on their innovative qualities and superb quality, the D’Angelico New Yorker is significant primarily due to its superb quality and aesthetic artistic appeal, rather than being an innovative instrument.
		Although the bodies were typically 1/2" wider than the 16" Gibson L-5 (measured across the lower bout at its widest point) of the time, D’Angelico’s early instruments were virtually identical in appearance to the L-5, with the exception of the peghead inlay.
		His 17" Excel was closely modeled after Gibson’s L-5 in size and shape, although it differed in ornamentation, and his 18" New Yorker was very strongly influenced by the Super 400.
	www.vintageguitarmagazine.org /brands/details.asp?ID=35 (825 words)

	Lemelson Center
		Gibson's first electric Spanish guitar, the ES-150's design featured a one-piece steel bar surrounded by the pickup coil and two magnets below the strings, rather than the earlier horseshoe configuration with magnets directly surrounding the strings.
		This new pickup was nicknamed the "Christian" in honor of the great guitarist with whom it is associated.
		Christian took what had been considered a novelty and brought it to the forefront as a lead instrument.
	www.si.edu /harcourt/nmah/lemel/guitars/frames/eg06.htm (104 words)

	Jeff Maguire's History of the Electric Guitar
		In 1935 the amplified electric guitar was still in it's infancy, with Hawaiian style solid body slide guitars being the only instruments available of sufficient quality for professional use, everything changed however in 1937 with the release of the Gibson ES-150.
		Shortly after Eddie Durham began using the ES-150 and it was through him that Charlie Christian was first exposed to it Durham explains " Touring with the band [ the Kansas City band ] I ran into Charlie Christian in Oklahoma City.
		By the early 1930's Charlie was doubling on bass and guitar and playing with a number of regional bands including Anna Mae Winburn's Band, the Leslie Sheffield Band, and by 1934 was playing the bass with Alphonso Trent, it was about this same period that he discovered the electric guitar.
	www.angelfire.com /music2/myguitar/page8.html (482 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Artist Pages
		The original Gibson ES-150 was 33/8" in depth, had a carved spruce top and maple sides and back with a non-cutaway shape, and a 243/4" scale length on a rosewood fingerboard.
		Roberts played the guitar through a variety of amps, beginning with a Gibson GA-50, but most often favoring his small Benson 300HR model with a single 12" JBL speaker for jazz playing, and a larger Benson with a 15" JBL for other studio dates.
		At this point, a Gibson humbucker was surface-mounted and screwed directly onto the top in the bridge position (the body was never routed for this addition).
	www.vguitar.com /artists/details.asp?ID=84 (2476 words)

	Gibson Angus Young Signature SG Solid Body Electric Guitars FREE SHIPPING
		I've been playing various Gibson copies for most of my life, but when I played this it was just incredible.
		I used to look at pictures of guitars all day (hey, I still do) but when I saw a Gibson Flying V, I literally fell in love with it.
		Gibson's Angus Young Signature SG is a faithful reproduction of the artist's trademark axe featuring an engraved lyre vibrola, an Angus Signature treble pickup along with a '57 Classic rhythm pickup, and a "Devil" peghead decal.
	www.music123.com /Item?itemno=33701&t=3 (1023 words)

	Electric Guitars
		It was called the ES-150 and sold for $150.
		These men created the first solidbody electric guitars that are still the two most popular electric guitars today: The Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster.
		But, the company who made the electric guitar famous was Gibson, who finished their first electric guitar in May of 1936.
	stu.cofc.edu /~jomoore/electric.htm (208 words)

	HOWARD ROBERTS: "The Black Guitar"
		Originally a pre-war Gibson ES-150, this one-of-a-kind arch-top acoustic-electric guitar is the highly modified and much prized historical instrument jazz guitarist -studio legend Howard Roberts used on countless recordings in the early 1960s through the 1970s.
		HR continued to use "The Black Guitar" regularly throughout his career despite the fact that Epiphone marketed the Howard Roberts model in the mid 1960s and that Gibson later offered their own Howard Roberts models in the 1970s.
		Much of the work is reputed to have been performed by the legendary Los Angeles guitar repairman Jack Willock.
	www.utstat.utoronto.ca /mikevans/hroberts/guitars/black.html (503 words)

	Gibson Guitars • onSound.net
		Early success for Gibson came long before rock and roll, with the F hold archtop Gibson ES-150 (Charlie Christian model), considered by many to have the best Jazz pickup ever made.
		The Gibson Guitar company has had many ups and downs over the years, but have always remained aware of what provides their bread and butter.
		Gibson's latest endeavor is called MAGIC, a communications medium for electronic instruments, and electronics in general.
	www.onsound.net /gibson.html (524 words)

	Gibson ES 150 Guitar
		Shipped in quantities in 1937, it was heralded as "Another miracle by Gibson- a true, undistorted tone amplified by electricity." The ES-150 was an amplified L-50 non-cutaway hollow-body model equipped with a single bar pickup.The ES-150 was so designated because it cost $150 as a complete set with the matching EH-150 amplifier and 15-foot cord.
		In mid-1936 Gibson announced the production of the first Electric Spanish guitar, the ES-150.
		Click here for the sound (90k) of the ES-150
	www.riffinteractive.com /expguitar/es150_1.htm (205 words)

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		Further details from Mitch indicate that these were Gibson Mona Steel, Set No. 240 and he had to get heavier gauge B & E strings (brand really doesn't matter on the unwound strings, all steel) to get the tension he was after.
		This guitar is another version of the Epiphone and Gibson guitars, at least in appearance, and was available from Epiphone during the 90's.
		Mitch Holder, a Los Angeles based studio and jazz guitarist, is the current owner and he has kindly supplied a considerable amount of information about the guitar and these photos of the front and the back.
	www.utstat.utoronto.ca /mikevans/hroberts/guitars/guitars.html (4235 words)

	Slat Kale
		The guitar: a 1939 Gibson ES-150, with maple back and sides, solid spruce carved top, mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard.
		In an original yellow tweed "aeroplane cloth" case, with a matching amplifier, it's the model made famous by the legendary Charlie Christian — who, by the time he died of tuberculosis in 1942, still in his mid-20s, had invented modern jazz guitar and helped lay the foundations of bebop.
	home.earthlink.net /~rslloyd/saltlake.html (1471 words)

	Blogcritics.org: A short history of electric guitars
		(It grew out of the needs of Radio broadcast and recording where, as to this day, quieter is better.) Gibson's ES 135 was the first to sport this innovation and entered into regular production on Les Paul guitars in late 1957.
		The date of the first application of the pickup on a guitar is uncertain but Loyd Loar who worked for Gibson from 1920 to 1924 (and is famous for his mandolins and arch tops) developed a pickup.
		Walter Fuller recalled that when he joined Gibson in 1933, he found some pickups that he believed were made ten years earlier under Loar's supervision.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/25/101206.php (2497 words)

	ac accessories
		For many Gibson models, we can supply excellent new bound pickguards, factory made to exact vintage specs (see pictures below.) We can also fabricate hand made guards for all Epiphone models as well as Vega, Guild, D'Angelico and other guitars, directly from factory correct templates in our archive, or from your photocopy.
		Thinline cases fit all 16" thinline Gibson ES-125, 135, 225, 330, 335, 345, 355 and similar guitars including Gretsch, Ibanez and others.
		Introduced in 1961, the Gibson Johnny Smith pickup is the original floating humbucking pickup.
	www.archtop.com /ac_access.html (4407 words)

	Guitar Digest - Guitars and Vintage Guitars
		Gibson ES-150 archtop electric, 1 p-90, 2 knob, ohsc, $1250.
		Might trade for an exceptional 60's Fender Mustang, Gibson Melody Maker, or Leslie mdls 122, 145, or 147.
		2 Gibson ES125tdc single cut-away w/2 P90 pu's in red sunburst.
	www.guitardigest.com /forsale.html (1792 words)

	Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 2002 Inductee
		Eddie Durham, a trombonist and guitarist, is credited with influencing Christian’s renewed interest in the guitar, and he began performing on a Gibson ES-150 guitar with magnetic pickup and electric amplifier.
		By 1937 he was leading his own combo in Oklahoma City, where jazz promoter John Hammond heard Christian at the downtown Ritz Ballroom.
		After graduating from Douglas High School, he toured as a bass player with several territorial bands.
	www.oklahomamusichalloffame.com /cchristian.html (250 words)

	Gearbox
		Baby O has stolen some of Davis' attention away from Black Betty, a Gibson 12-string he still uses in the studio.
		Whitley uses D'Addario strings on all his instruments-nickel-wound electric strings on everything but the Gibson L-0, which has a bronze-wound acoustic set.
		On the road, he travels with the guitar he calls Grandma, an early '60s Gibson J-45, as well as Baby O, a Harmony Stella 12-string he recently acquired for $100.
	www.acousticguitar.com /issues/ag69/gear69.html (1848 words)

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		Gibson SGX, new, discontinued model, surf yellow glossy finished, chrome hardware includes mini Grover machines, Tune-O-Matic bridge and stop tail piece, one exposed humbucker with coil tapping switch for single or double coil and volume and tone controls, unbound rosewood fretboard with pearl inlayed dot position markers, white pick guard, w/gig bag list:
		Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker, new 2004, TV yellow faded satin finishes,
		Santa Maria body with a lightweight '60s-style slim taper neck and rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, single dog-ear P-90 pickup in the bridge position, chrome hardware includes Tune-O-Matic bridge and 3-on-a-side plank tuning machines with white plastic knobs, volume and tone control, with gig bag
	www.guitarworks.com /electricguitars.html (944 words)

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		This is a vintage 1970 gibson J 50 acoustic guitar.
		Heres a great 1964 ES 335 in near mint original cond..Original stoptail in sunburst finish.True second owner of this guitar which has been in stirage for years.All tags,stap,cord.Clean ohsc..tough to find one in cleaner shape*** scan avail through..ddvintage.com
		Sunburst lacquer finish, all original except for Gibson barrel shaped tone/volume knobs and added master volume knob.
	www.guitarauction.com /cgi-bin/dcads98/dcads98.cgi?action=view_category&database=Gibsons&category=2 (1413 words)

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