Gibson Acoustic Guitar History,
Gibson was a musician and a woodcrafter ( luthier ) who enjoyed Building musical instruments like archtop guitars , mandolins , and harps . The earliest electric gibson guitar ever recorded or seen had a perfectly solid picket rectangular one piece body .
In 1896 gibson opened a very little store and kept on experimenting and making innovating new ways on how to make stringed instruments .
In 1902 gibson was bought out by investors who referred to as their business Mandolin Guitar Manufacturing Company
From 1902 to 1944 a number of the finest gibson guitars were created and now are considered vintage guitars and highly collectible . A number of these guitars include the
- Gibson L-five archtop introduced in 1922
- Gibson f-5 mandolin - 1923
- Super jumbo flat prime guitars - 1934
- Gibson Es-one hundred fifty with Charlie Christian Pickups - 1936-37
- The First Single Gibson archtops -1939
- J-45 Flat high introduced in 1942
In 194four the company was purchased by CMI that stands for chicago musical instrument company . In 194four to 1968-69 a lot of fabulous gibson guitars were created that are now household names such as
- The single cut gibson es-a hundred seventy five guitar - 1949
- Les Paul solid body p-ninety pickups - 1952
- Eb-1 Violin - 1953
- Lespaul Customs With PAF humbuckers - 1955
- Single cut thinline es-225t - 1955
- The ever famous gibson Byrdland - 1955
- Double Cutaway semi hollow es-335 - 1958
- Gibson flying v explorers - 1958
- First EDS 1275 Gibson doublenecks - 1958
- Gibson Hummingbird -1959
- Gibson Barney Kessel - 1960
- Sg Lespaul - 1961
- Gibson Thunderbird Bass - 1963
In 1957 CMI then purchased Epiphone guitar company transferring production from Philadelphia to the Gibson plant in Kalamazoo until 1969 when epiphone guitars were built in Japan .
In 1968 Gibson started making reissues of the lespaul customs and standards .
In late 1969 The company was purchased by an organization known as Norlin . During 1969 to 1984 additional outstanding Gibson guitars were made such as :
- Gibson L series were introduced in 1972
- Nashville Tennesse Guitar - 1974
- Gibson BB KING - 1980
- Chet Atkins -1982
- In 1984 production at kalamazoo Ended.
In 1985 Gibson sold to a group called Henry Juskewiscz . In 1985 to the current gift day Gibson is usually robust, introducing additional models like Chet atkins country gentlemen and several additional.
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