Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Memphis name also appears on various guitar-effects pedals, including delays, reverbs, overdrives, and the Memphis Fuzz. One pedal is the Memphis phase shifter, named "Roto Phase". It is a stompbox featuring single monophonic input and output jacks, and a single knob that controls the speed of the rotating-speaker effect.
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee. [7] [8] [9] [10]
The Gibson ES-137 is a semi-hollow-body guitar which was manufactured in Gibson's Custom Shop Memphis factory as a limited production run from 2002–2013. [1] It was a relatively new design in Gibson's ES line which was not based on a vintage instrument, as many of Gibson's instruments are.
ES Series guitars were built at Gibson's Memphis, Tennessee factory from 2000 until 2019. [2] After Gibson's change of ownership in 2019, the Memphis factory was closed and production was moved back to Nashville, Tennessee .
The guitars came with PAF-style Memphis Historic Spec (MHS) pickups and a rounded C-style neck shape. [2] Most of the ES-Les Pauls came with F holes. The guitar's neck was made of mahogany and the back and sides were laminated maple/poplar with a walnut stain. There is a mahogany block running through the body making the guitar semi-hollow.
The Gibson ES-335 is a semi-hollow body semi-acoustic guitar introduced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of its ES (Electric Spanish) series in 1958.It has a solid maple wood block running through the center of its body with hollow upper bouts and two violin-style f-holes cut into the top over the hollow chambers. [1]
The ES-339 comes with variations of pickups, pair of Gibson 57' classic humbuckers, a model reissue of a PAF pick up with Alnico II magnets or MHS Memphis Historic Spec or Burstbucker 1 & 2. The ES-339 Figured features all the same design specifications with exception to the wood construction, which is curly maple (also known as flamed maple ).
J. C. Penney sold Matsumoku-built Skylark guitars through its catalog division. Matsumoku built many early Greco guitars as well as Memphis, Vantage, Westbury, Westminster, C.G.Winner, Cutler, Lyle and Fell. Washburn Guitars contracted with Matsumoku to build some of its electric guitars and basses from 1979 through 1984. Though the names above ...