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Montgomery Ward was the first to offer them for sale, as the 1270 model. It had Gibson's bar pickup (though with rounded bobbins, as opposed to the hexagonal pickup Gibson later installed on its own factory models), and a volume control (no tone control); like Spiegel's 34-S model (first advertised in 1937) it lacked any Gibson identification.
In the mid-1950s Gibson looked to create a new guitar pickup different from existing popular single coil designs. Gibson had already developed the Charlie Christian pickup and P-90 in the 1930s and 40s; however, these designs—like competitor Fender's single-coil pickups—were fraught with inherent 60-cycle hum sound interference.
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. The ES-137 is available in three models, Custom, Classic, and Standard. Gibson claims the ES-137 is a combination of its traditional semi-hollow-body single-cutaway guitars with the sound of a Les Paul Classic ...
The Gibson ES-333 is a semi hollow body electric guitar made by Gibson Guitar Corporation. The ES-333 is quite similar to the Gibson ES-335, but varies from the ES-335 in the following ways: The finish is a thin satin finish, versus the ES-335's thicker full gloss finish. The headstock has a silkscreen Gibson logo, versus the ES-335's inlaid ...
The original Customs were fitted with a P-90 pickup in the bridge position and an Alnico V "staple" pickup in the neck. In 1957, the Custom was fitted with Gibson's new PAF humbucker pickups, [ 28 ] [ 29 ] and later became available with three pickups instead of the usual two.
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 ).
Gibson Marauder bridge pickup 1976. Early Marauders had a three-way toggle switch on the treble side of the upper bout of the body (opposite the location on Les Pauls and ES-175s, similar to a Gibson Byrdland), to select either one or both pickups. In 1976, a rotary potentiometer was introduced which allowed a range of blends between the two ...
Between 1962 and 1965, Gibson produced a more expensive version called the Gibson EB-0F, which while superficially near identical, bar a longer pickguard also featured a built-in Fuzz box. This variety sold very poorly and remains fairly obscure. The EB-0 generally came with one pickup, a large humbucker placed up close to the neck.