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The first Gretsch branded guitar was produced in 1928, but was one of 3000 instruments in the Gretsch catalog, with it still being primarily a drum company. [2] WWII marked a transitional period for Gretsch when Fred Gretsch Sr. handed over the family business to his son, Fred Gretsch Jr., after retiring in 1942. Soon after taking over, Fred Jr ...
The Gretsch G6199 "Billy-Bo" Jupiter is a reproduction of a guitar designed by Bo Diddley (1928–2008) in 1959 and produced by a former Gretsch employee.. Diddley built his first guitar in 1945, it was trapezoid shaped since Diddley felt that the regular shaped Gibson L5 he was playing were hindering his live performances.
The Gretsch White Falcon is an electric hollow-body guitar introduced in 1954 by Gretsch. This guitar was created as a "showpiece" to exhibit the craft of Gretsch's luthiers, sales, and demonstration representative, Jimmie Webster, who created it for the 1954 NAMM Convention. The guitar was so popular that it was put into production and went on ...
Now, with director David Schurmann’s “My Penguin Friend,” it’s a welcome return to a winning formula. In the Brazilian filmmaker’s tender-hearted, all-ages adventure, Reno plays a grief ...
A couple of years after the release of The Batman (and with a direct sequel taking its time getting made), HBO’s The Penguin arrives to offer fans their first follow-up to Matt Reeves’ hit film.
"Rebuilding" presents us with a devastating situation: a man who hasn’t just lost his home, but has seen his entire life get burned away. Yet a situation isn’t the same thing as a dramatic ...
The Gretsch G6131, popularly known as the Gretsch Jet Firebird, is an electric guitar made by Gretsch. The most popular use of this guitar is by late AC/DC rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and Crowded House lead singer and Split Enz co-frontman Neil Finn .
As is common with electric guitars, the body of the 6128 Duo Jet is made of wood, [3] [4] in this case chambered mahogany. The guitar shares its dual pickup, single cutaway design with the Gibson Les Paul, but the Duo Jet takes differing approaches to shaping the instrument’s tonality and has been made available in various configurations.