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Gibson appliance advertisement, 1948. Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan , in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice ( ice-boxes ). The area around Belding, Michigan, had a skilled workforce of Danish craftsmen and a good supply of hardwoods including ash .
Electric guitars such as the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson ES-335, and the Gibson SG are made in Nashville, Tennessee. Until 2019, Semi-acoustic guitars , such as the Gibson ES Series , were made in Memphis, Tennessee , but that operation moved to Nashville during the company's restructuring as they emerged from bankruptcy protection.
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.
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In 2003 Gibson Guitars produced limited editions of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins's Gibson Explorer. The guitar is made of African limba wood and features an aged finish, Maestro vibrola, and classic humbucking pickups In 2008 Gibson released two new versions of the guitar, the first of which was the "50-Year Commemorative Explorer".
Tappan is a brand of appliances, named after company founder W. J. Tappan. [1] [2]Tappan claimed several innovations: 1930s all-porcelain range available in various colors [2]
The Gibson Nighthawk was a family of electric guitars manufactured by Gibson.Introduced in 1993, the Nighthawk represented a radical change from traditional Gibson designs. . While its maple-capped mahogany body and set neck were reminiscent of the classic Gibson Les Paul, the Nighthawk incorporated a number of characteristics more commonly associated with Fender guita
The 1952 Gibson Les Paul was originally made with a mahogany body, a mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, two P-90 single coil pickups, and a one-piece, 'trapeze'-style bridge/tailpiece with strings fitted under (instead of over) a steel stop-bar, [note 1] and available only with a gold-finished top, giving rise to the moniker "Gold-Top".