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Top and back were bound in ivoroid. A 2-part bridge was used in the 1928 model. In 1930 Gibson squared off the bottom to a more traditional shape as opposed to the previously "egg shaped" bottom commonly known as the Robert Johnson style. In the early 1990s Gibson reissued the L-1 using the same specifications as the earlier version.
Gibson currently produces an Arlo Guthrie Signature model. Robert Johnson was photographed with a L-1 acoustic. Gibson makes a Robert Johnson Signature model. Woody Guthrie used an L-0. Jeff Buckley used an L-1. Sheryl Crow uses a L-00 Blues King. Elvis Costello used a LG-C. Patty Griffin used a LG-2. Gibson makes a LG-2 Americana as a replica.
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.
The Gibson Explorer is a type of electric guitar model by Gibson guitars, released in 1958. The Explorer offered a radical, "futuristic" body design, much like its siblings: the Flying V, which was released the same year, and the Moderne, which was designed in 1957 but not released until 1982.
Gibson's Generation Collection, introduced in 2022, includes the G-200, with the same shape but simplified appointments, a cutaway and an additional soundhole on the player-facing side called a Player Port. This model has walnut back and sides and a satin lacquer finish. Gibson's brand, Epiphone, produces a more affordable version of the J-200.
The current L6S neck does not feature the unique "narrow at the nut and wider near the body" taper of the 1970s guitar, but a conventional Gibson shape. The chamfered body shape and 24 frets are of similar design to the 1970s classic, except that the newer version is a two-piece maple body, as opposed to a one-piece bodywork on the original.
Gibson L-4 refers to several archtop guitars produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The L-4 was first introduced in 1911 as an acoustic rhythm guitar with an oval sound hole and 12 frets to the neck; [ 1 ] it was used by Eddie Lang , who also played an L-5 .