Vintage Gibson Electric Guitars
The Gibson Guitar Corp. resides in Nashville, Tennessee, making acoustic and electric guitars. The company namesake Orville Gibson began making distinctive carved mandolins in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the late 1890s. He used the same style of arched tops in his first acoustic guitars and by the 1930s was also making flat top acoustic guitars and electric guitars. Gibson soon became the leading manufacture of arch-top guitars; in 1936 the company introduced the first “Electric Spanish” model, which is generally recognized as the first commercially successful electric guitar.
Charlie Christian, one of the first famous electric guitarists, helped to popularize Gibson’s electric guitars with his ES-150 and ES-200 models. Bought by the Norlin Corp. In the late 1960s, Gibson’s quality and fortunes declined until it was within in weeks of going out of business when it was purchased by its current owners in 1985. The Gibson ES-175 is one of the most famous jazz guitars in history. It debuted in 1949 as the first Gibson electric to feature a stylish Florentine cutaway. The first models had one single-coil pickup in the neck position and a carved rosewood bridge.As the popularity of various styles of music developed, the electric guitar became used extensively in jazz, blues, and rock and roll as well as other types of music. You probably won’t see an acoustic guitar in a metal band either. Don't forget a case for guitar storage!
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