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The SST was a design that combined Gibson's steel-string acoustic and electric guitar technology. [2] The guitar had a solid spruce or cedar top and a mahogany body. Unlike most acoustic-electrics, the SST had no resonating chamber or soundhole. The acoustic sound came from a bridge mounted transducer manufactured by L.R. Baggs for Gibson with ...
Alvarez Artist Series has won several awards, including a 5/5 rating in Acoustic Guitar Magazine and a nomination for best guitar series from The Music and Sound Retailer. [13] In 2017, Artist Series began adding new key features and models including armrests, [ 14 ] travel guitars like the Delta DeLite and LJ2, [ 15 ] and ATR (Advanced Tonal ...
Dana Bourgeois (born 1953) [1] [2] is a luthier, writer, lecturer and is considered one of the United States' top acoustic guitar makers. [3] [4] Bourgeois's innovations in design and voicing techniques have earned him worldwide acclaim for his acoustic guitars from professional players, hobbyists and collectors alike.
In 2000 the Gibson Hummingbird was the winner of Acoustic Guitar's Player's Choice Award for the Dreadnought Category, and was described thus: "The Hummingbird has a very wide range of sound, from gutsy and loud, to sweet and soft. Superb for all styles of playing, whether just playing chords or intricate solos."
Today, Charvel and his son Michael own and operate Charvel Music, a full line music store in Paradise, California, and manufacture guitars as a joint venture under the name Wayne Guitars. [16] Their houses and shop burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire .
Penco made Martin- and Gibson-style acoustic guitars. Reverse engineered and built to spec, some of the closest replicas of the Martin D-28, D-35, D-41, D-45, and D-45 12 models in existence today were made by Penco, as well as bolt-neck copies of Gibson's Les Paul and SG guitars and basses, Rickenbacker 4001 basses, Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars, Fender Jazz bass guitars, 12 ...
Warwick Lancelot Armstrong "Rick" Turner III, [1] (July 30, 1943 – April 17, 2022) was an American builder of guitars and basses, ukuleles, and other stringed instruments. As a guitar builder, Rick created instruments for rock musicians including Lindsey Buckingham , John Entwistle , and Jesse Colin Young .
Sheryl Crow with her (1962 or reissue) Country Western guitar. Gibson introduced the Country Western guitar in 1955/1956 (sources such as "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars" say 1956, however other sources say 1955 as per this account [1]), as a version of their pre-existing Southern Jumbo but with a natural finish, as opposed to the sunburst finish of the Southern Jumbo (SJ).