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The Gibson L-1 is an acoustic guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in the early 20th century. The L-1 model was introduced first as an archtop (1902), and later as a flat top in 1926. The model is famously associated with the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson.
The L-2 model introduced in 1929 [4] has a slightly different body shape comparing to L-1, L-0 and L-00, which is more of a Nick Lucas shape. It was the most expensive one among the L series. The L-2 model has 12, 13 or 14 frets clear of body. Discontinued in 1935. Another variant named L-C (L-Century) was introduced in 1933.
This is a list of Gibson brand of stringed musical instruments, mainly guitars, manufactured by Gibson, alphabetically by category then alphabetically by product (lowest numbers first). The list excludes other Gibson brands such as Epiphone.
1928 Gibson L-1 Kalamazoo KG-14. Robert Johnson played various guitars, produced in the 1920s and 1930s. The guitar he is holding in the studio portrait, where he's dressed in a suit, is a Gibson Guitar Corporation model L-1 flat top, which was a small body acoustic produced between 1926 and 1937.
Orville Gibson started making instruments in 1894 and founded the company in 1902 as the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make mandolin-family instruments. [1] Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins .
The seizure of more than 3,000 Gibson guitars through the L.A.-Long Beach port complex is the largest counterfeit musical instrument seizure on record, authorities said.
Robert Johnson used an L-1 acoustic. [73] Gibson makes a Robert Johnson Signature model. Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones) used an acoustic SJ-200, an ES-330, reverse and non-reverse Firebirds [74] and a Les Paul Goldtop. [75] Mick Jones used a black Les Paul Custom retrofitted with DiMarzio Super Distortion humbuckers and two coil-tap switches ...
The instruments were already unique before Lloyd Loar came to work for Gibson. However, it is the Loar-designed instruments that became especially desirable. First made famous by Bill Monroe, Loar's signed mandolins today can cost as much as $200,000. The L-5 guitar owned by Maybelle Carter, which was made after he left Gibson, sold for ...
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