Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Kalamazoo is the name for two different lines of instruments produced by Gibson.In both cases Kalamazoo was a budget brand. The first consisted of such instruments as archtop, flat top and lap steel guitars, banjos, and mandolins made between 1933 and 1942, and the second, from 1965 to 1970, had solid-body electric and bass guitars.
1958 saw the introduction of Gibson's new thinline series of guitars. The ES-335, 345 and 355, all came with a semi-hollow body: the wood of the top and back was maple and there was a maple center block inside the guitars which ran the length of the body all the way to the mahogany neck, with a rosewood fingerboard.
The company had developed an electromagnetic pickup in 1935 (the now-famous "bar pickup", named for its shape), which was initially factory-installed only on lap steel guitar (EH) models, then offered as an accessory and finally installed on acoustic guitars (the L-00 and L-1 models). [3] Magazine advertising, c. 1939
The Gibson S-1 is a solid-bodied electric guitar, made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.Notable players include Carlos Santana, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, and Angel Olsen, and Ramesh Iyer, the maestro guitarist of Bollywood, who has accompanied as a core member of R. D. Burman, Kalyanji-Anandji Duo, Bappi Lahiri, Laxmikant-Pyarelal Duo and many more renowned music directors of Bollywood ...
The ES-5 was intended to be an electric version of their popular Gibson L-5 acoustic jazz model. [1] The ES-5 was introduced in 1949, and offered several innovative features which have become standard within the industry. The ES-5 was the first model of the ES-series to offer three pickups.
In the mid-1950s, the ES-125T was introduced, which was an entry-level thinline archtop electric guitar based on the original ES-125. It would later add options for double P-90 pickups and a sharp cutaway, referred to as a florentine cutaway, similar to the ES-175 .
Matt McCracken of Guitar.com noted that "Vintage made its name mixing homegrown design ingenuity with overseas manufacturing to deliver impressive value for money." [13] Dave Burrluck of MusicRadar in his review of Vintage VSA500 (based on Gibson ES-335) acknowledged the brand's "copy-cat status", but concluded that "the guitars might be slight in price but [...] they are far from generic ...
The Orville by Gibson series were distributed by Yamano Gakki and were priced midway between the American-made Gibson guitars and the Korean-made Epiphone guitars. There were a number of changes to the Orville by Gibson model range between their beginning in 1988 and their end in 1998.