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	Gibson Guitar Corporation - 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.
		Orville are rumoured to be still going, but only doing higher quality Gibson copies, much like fellow Japanese Gibson copiers, Tokai Guitars, also widely acclaimed for the quality of their instruments.
		Gibson Acoustic DocumentaryGibson Acoustic is the result of a partnership between accomplished motion picture photographer Erik L. Brown (The Horse Whisperer, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ali, The Black Dahlia), Gibson Acoustic (Bozeman, Montana), No Island Media and special guest, Jackie Greene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation (1334 words)

	Orville Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orville H. Gibson (1856 - August 21, 1918, Chateaugay, New York) was a luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
		Gibson's dedication to quality and innovation for over 100 years is the foundation for Gibson's growth from a specialized mandolin maker to the world's premier maker of fretted instruments.
		Gibson started from scratch with banjos in 1919 and in less than a decade surpassed companies that had specialized in banjos since before Gibson was founded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orville_Gibson (557 words)

	Orville Gibson's Last Mandolin
		Orville's body size is significantly larger than later Gibson mandolins and the shallow neck-set angle and the low bridge, in the opinion of most players, simply do not work as well as the later design with a higher bridge and steeper neck set angle.
		While Orville stressed that his instruments featured violin building principles of construction, his carving patterns and his technique of incorporating the neck and the sides in a unitary construction are radically different from those of any violins.
		While this mandolin did not influence the owners of the Gibson company to revert back to Orville's early design concepts, as the finest presentation grade handmade Orville Gibson mandolin ever made and very possibly the last instrument produced by Orville Gibson in his career, this is without doubt an extremely significant, historically important instrument.
	www.mandolinarchive.com /articles/orville_f.shtml (1287 words)

	Orville H. Gibson - Background
		Orville H. Gibson was born in 1856 on a farm near the small town of Chateaugay, New York, in an area known as "Earlville," about one hour north of Lake Placid and about an hour south of Montreal.
		Orville felt that the bent and multi-pieced back of the then popular bowl-back mandolins did not possess "that degree of sensitive resonance and vibratory action necessary to produce the power and quality of tone and melody found in" his instruments.
		Orville's earliest instruments were quite unusual and featured carved soundboards, fl painted surfaces, elaborate inlays, and rims ("ribs") cut from a solid piece of wood rather than being bent into their final shape.
	www.siminoff.net /pages/gibson_background.html (1207 words)

	All Things Guitar / Gibson Time Line For #2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orville's mandolins are far superior to the bowlbacks or “taterbugs” of his day, and he is unable to meet the rising demand.
		Gibson employee Ted McHugh, a woodworker who had sung in a group with Orville Gibson, invents two of the most important innovations in guitar history: the adjustable truss rod and the height-adjustable bridge.
		Gibson perfects the P-90 single-coil pickup and leads the industry in the development of new electric archtops with such classic models as the ES-5 (the first triple-pickup guitar) and ES-175 in 1949, followed by the L-5CES and Super 400CES (“CES” for Cutaway Electric Spanish) in 1951.
	www.allthingsguitar.com /2005reviews/gibson/gibsontimeline.htm (1338 words)

	Kalamazoo Public Library - Local History - Gibson Inc.: Music Makers
		Gibson preferred using old furniture wood to make his instruments, believing it to be more durable and of higher quality.
		During the 1920s, Gibson was also one of the first manufacturers to experiment with the electric guitar, twenty years before it found popular success.
		Gibson experienced remarkable growth in the 1950s, aided in part by the introduction of the famous Les Paul guitar in 1952.
	www.kpl.gov /collections/LocalHistory/AllAbout/businesses/GibsonInc/Gibson.aspx (633 words)

	1897 Orville Gibson Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orville's top is also large in surface area, thanks to the circular lower bout that would become an identifying characteristic of most Gibson company-made archtops and of such noteworthy Gibson flat tops as the Super Jumbo 200 and J-185.
		Orville stated in his one-and-only patent (granted in 1898) that ideally, the back, rim and neck should all be carved from a single piece of wood.
		As the earliest known guitar made by Orville Gibson, the historical importance of this instrument is incomparable.
	www.gruhn.com /features/orvillegtr/orvillegtr.html (471 words)

	Gibson History
		Gibson introduced the distinctive hexagonal pickup on a lap steel model in late 1935.
		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.
	www.chrisbsmusic.com /gibsonhistory.html (831 words)

	Gibson - WikiRadish
		The Les Paul was changed into the Gibson Les Paul Custom, which became the Gibson SG in 1961, but returned in the late 1960s after it was taken up by players such as Eric Clapton and Peter Green.
		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.
		Gibson also operates a factory in Memphis where its Custom Shop guitars are manufactured and sold, and another in Bozeman, Montana, where Gibson's acoustic guitars are made.
	www.wikiradish.com /~wikiradi/index.php?title=Gibson (498 words)

	Gibson Guitars - History
		The "Gibson Mandolin - Guitar Co., Ltd" was incorporated on October 11, 1902 with Orville Gibson as a consultant, not as a manager, since he had no interest in running the day to day operations.
		Orville Gibson, as well as the craftsmen and engineers who followed him, believed that handwork and manufacturing could produce large numbers of high-quality instruments.
		At Gibson, the engineers had noticed the upsurge in vintage instrument sales and began to revise instruments like the Les Paul and ES-335 to their orginal specifications.
	homepage.mac.com /schubie/gibson/history.html (1630 words)

	Gibson Guitars - About gibson guitars, buying a Gibson guitar
		Orville's mandolins were far superior to competing models, and as a result the company was unable to meet rising demand.
		Orville was not one of the principals of the Gibson Guitar Company, but he did own some stock.
		Gibson put it into production in 1938 as the Super Jumbo, under its more familiar name, the J-200, it is still the standard for country players.
	www.guitar-player-resources.com /gibson-guitars.html (643 words)

	U2, Scotty Moore, Earl Scruggs win Gibson Guitar Awards
		Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz and actor/comedian Mark DeCarlo hosted the annual awards luncheon attended by many of the nominees, past and current winners as well as Gibson and music industry executives.
		The annual Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards are traditionally presented on the day before the Grammy Awards to recognize guitar players (and players of related fretted instruments) for their artistic accomplishments and to honor musicians who reflect the spirit of Orville H. Gibson (1856-1918) and his belief in quality, innovation and tradition.
		Orville H. Gibson made the first Gibson instruments in 1894, and since then the Gibson company has produced classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins and banjos.
	www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2002/feb27a.html (367 words)

	Gibson Mandolin Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But even though Gibson mandolins were the most expensive, their craftsmanship, sound, aesthetic beauty, and grandiose hype captured the majority of hearts and pocketbooks than as now.
		Ironically, Orville Gibson himself missed out on all the fun since he had sold the rights to his name and inventions in 1902 for $2500.
		Gibson made all but the bass in two body styles: a round, teardrop shape and the "florentine" with scroll and points.
	home.earthlink.net /~minermusic/group2.htm (708 words)

	Iraq aside Michael Massing. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orville is orville by gibson forthwith the 1st Booster fender universal.
		Orville Schell is Dean of the Alum Civilise of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Gibson died of a disease diagnosed as endocarditis.
	boldhuff.xoompages.com /orville/by-gibson.html (5023 words)

	A Brief History of the Mandolin
		Orville H. Gibson was born in New York in 1856, and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan as a young man. He began designing and building instruments in the 1880s.
		Orville Gibson was apparently obsessed with ornamentation, particularly the scroll.
		The discussion of Orville Gibson was drawn primarily from the liner notes to Tone Poems, a 1994 Acoustic Disk release by Tony Rice and David Grisman.
	www.mandolincafe.com /archives/briefhistory.html (1616 words)

	Short History of Gibson
		Gibson catalogs from the period are filled with the kind of rhetoric more suited to the evangelistic preacher than a musical instrument retailer.
		Gibson did not respond to this change in the market and in fact did not build its first banjos until 1918.
		Many professional musicians thought them to be over-priced and even the president of Gibson acknowledged that they “had the worst reputation of any banjo on the market.” The designs used were indeed antiquated and did not produce the tone and volume required by the jazz dance band.
	banjoinfo.4t.com /ShortHistoryofGibson.html (947 words)

	History of legendary Gibson Guitars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orville Gibson (born 1856, Chateaugay, N.Y.) started making mandolins in 1894 in Kalamazoo, Michigan USA.
		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.
		Les Paul did not care for the new body style and let his endorsement lapse, and the new body design then became known as the Gibson SG The Les Paul returned to the Gibson catalogue in 1968 due to the influence of players such as Eric Clapton and Peter Green.
	www.easterncorner.com /library/gibson_guitars.htm (828 words)

	Gruhn Guitars Orville Gibson Lyre Mandolin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Of all the unusual instruments made by Gibson in the 112 years since Orville Gibson strung up his first creation, the lyre mandolin may well be the most intriguing.
		Orville thought enough of it to use it to frame a photo of himself on the paper labels of his instruments, and the Gibson company continued to use that image on labels until 1908.
		He said that ideally the back, sides and neck should be of one piece, but he admitted that this was impractical, and he also noted that instruments should be free of braces and cleats and anything else that would impede the natural vibration of the wood.
	www.gruhn.com /features/lyre/MF7175.html (332 words)

	Orville H. Gibson -Lyre Label
		What was not clearly visible is that Orville's photo is blocking the fretboard of this instrument and that it is, in fact, a mandolin, not a lyre.
		I called Julius Bellson, former employee and historian at Gibson, and the discovery sparked his attention, for Julius had always thought the instrument in the label was a lyre.
		Orville's mandolin was built on a 3" thick rim and there was a support bracket across the back of the peghead connecting to both of the two horns.
	www.siminoff.net /pages/gibson_labels.html (834 words)

	`Rique's Mandolin Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Orville Gibson was responsible for the greatest change in the design of the mandolin in the last 4oo years.
		Gibson was operating a shop at 114 South Burdick in Kalamazoo, Michigan where he constructed and sold his carved mandolins, guitars, harp guitars, and at least one zither.
		In February of 1898, Orville Gibson was issued a patent (# 598,245) for his design of a mandolin with carved top, back, and sides (Yes, the sides were carved, not bent).
	www.valvette.us /rique/mandolins.html (491 words)

	Lillibridge Gallery Virtual Tour: Guitar by Orville Gibson, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1902
		In 1898, Orville Gibson was awarded the patent for an "Improved Mandolin," using principles that could be applied also to "guitars, mandolas, and lutes." The invention was that of a back, neck, and ribs structure carved from one piece of wood, with an arched soundboard and slightly hollowed neck.
		The front or sounding-board and the back board are carved in a somewhat convex form to give them the proper stiffness and are preferably the thickest at and near the center.
		However, due to the demands of mass-production, Gibson’s integral body and neck construction was abandoned in favor of more traditional methods, although the distinctive arched tops and decorative features were retained.
	www.usd.edu /smm/Tours/LillibridgeGallery/OrvilleGibsonGuitar.html (554 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Brand Pages
		While there are no existing documents giving reasons for the changes, it’s safe to assume Orville’s technique of combining the neck and side rim of the body would have been very awkward, as would the deep relief carving of the scroll, the carving pattern of the back.
		Orville’s mandolins feature a significantly larger body than later Gibson mandos, and most players agree the shallow neckset angle and low bridge do not work as well as the later design, with a higher bridge and steeper neckset.
		While this mandolin clearly did not influence the owners of the Gibson Company to revert back to his early design concepts, as the finest presentation-grade handmade Orville Gibson mandolin ever made and very possibly the last instrument he produced, this is without doubt an extremely significant instrument.
	www.vguitar.com /brands/details.asp?ID=73 (1014 words)

	Vintage Guitars Info - Gibson collecting vintage gibson guitars
		Electric Solid body Gibsons: body is a solid piece of wood (no soundhole cutouts) 1.5" to 2" thick, pickups and knobs routed into the top of the guitar.
		Electric Lapsteel Gibson: a small solidbody guitar that is played in the lap, Hawaiian style, with a metal slide bar, pickup and knob routed into the top.
		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 (9284 words)

	Gibson Mandolins at Mandolin Central
		All Gibson mandolins are hand-built to precise graduations, specific tap-tunings, hand-fit dovetail neck joints, superior wood selection and hand-stained thinly applied finishes.
		Gibson, a name that for over 100 years has defined quality, craftsmanship, innovation, and legendary sound.
		A Gibson original acoustic instrument could be found in almost every performers hand of the era.
	www.mandolincentral.com /gibson.html (290 words)

	A Brief History Of Gibson Mandolins
		I don't know if there was any particualar year in which Gibson offered a full line of A, A1, A2, A3, A4 and F, F1, F2, F3, F4; however, the nonmenclature during this period is that the higher the number, the more highly ornamented as compared to others of similar vintage.
		But the fact of the matter is that Gibson was, by far, the most successful of all, and so its terminology has been adopted my most mandolin affectionatos.
		For example: Gibson had F7's and F12's which were of lower grade than the F5's of the same years - violating the higher number = higher grade system.
	www.vintagemandolin.com /mandohistory.html (1288 words)

	Sweetwater inSync
		Orville Gibson was born in Chateagay, New York in 1856.
		It was during these musings that Gibson determined that carved wood rather than bent wood possessed the best vibrating characteristics for constructing acoustic instruments.
		Orville was listed as a consultant, not a manager, since he had no real interest in keeping up with the day-to-day operations.
	www.sweetwater.com /insync/word.php?find=OrvilleGibson (344 words)

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