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The Gibson L-5 is a hollow body guitar first produced in 1923 by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, then of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The first guitar to feature F-holes , the L-5 was designed under the direction of acoustical engineer and designer Lloyd Loar , and has been in production ever since.
Loar designed the flagship L-5 archtop guitar and the Gibson F-5 mandolin that was introduced in 1922, before leaving the company in 1924. [21] In 1936, Gibson introduced its first "Electric Spanish" model, the ES-150 , followed by other electric instruments like steel guitars , banjos and mandolins .
The Gibson L series is a series of small-body guitars produced and sold by Gibson Guitar Corporation in the early 20th century. The first guitars of this series, Gibson L-0 and Gibson L-1, were introduced first as arch-tops (1902), and later as flat tops in 1926. The L series was later gradually replaced by the LG series in the 1940s.
Musicians will be amp-ed that these phonies are off the streets. More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that could have been sold for a combined $18.7 million were seized by federal authorities after ...
Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer. He is best known for his design work with the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 20th century, [3] including the F-5 model mandolin and L-5 guitar.
Introduced in 1972, the Gibson L5S was essentially a smaller, thinner solid-body version of the popular Gibson L-5 hollowbody. Like the L-5, it featured multiple binding on the single-cutaway 3-ply solid maple body, 5-piece maple neck, and headstock, and also featured an ebony fingerboard with block inlays. The headstock featured a flower-pot ...
Trump Guitars, the company behind a line of Donald Trump-endorsed acoustic and electric instruments, has been issued a cease and desist order from Gibson, the famous 130-year-old guitar manufacturer.
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.