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Production of metal banjo parts resumed in late 1946; however, it is commonly believed that the metal composition of foundry products delivered to Gibson after World War II was inferior to that of parts produced prior to 1940. [4] On April 12, 1947, the Gibson Instrument Company changed their corporate logo from script lettering to the use of ...
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.
An exception is the year 1994, Gibson's centennial year; many 1994 serial numbers start with "94", followed by a six-digit production number [citation needed]. As of 2006, the company used seven (six since 1999) serial number systems, [95] [clarification needed] making it difficult to identify guitars by their serial number alone. The Gibson ...
An illustrated history of the banjo featuring the world's premier collection. Webb, Robert Lloyd (1996). Ring the Banjar!. 2nd edition. Centerstream Publishing. ISBN 1-57424-016-1. A short history of the banjo, with pictures from an exhibition at the MIT Museum. Winans, Robert (2018). Banjo Roots and Branches. University of Illinois Press, 2018.
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.
The museum has instruments related to different stages of Earl Scruggs career. Scruggs' first five-string banjo was a Gibson RB-11; the museum obtained an identical instrument that was made in 1938. [22] [23] Scruggs' main banjo was a Gibson Granada, which he played even after Vega created a special banjo for him. [23]
Huber Banjos produced a Jim Mills signature model based on the Mack Crow. Mills released a book on pre-war Gibson banjos in 2009, Gibson Mastertones: Flathead 5-String Banjos of the 1930s and 1940s. [4] Mills died from a heart attack on May 3, 2024, at the age of 57. [5]
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