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The dreadnought is a type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. [1] The style, since copied by other guitar manufacturers, has become the most common for acoustic guitars. At the time of its creation in 1916 the word dreadnought referred to a large, all big-gun, modern battleship of the type ...
Gibson Chet Atkins SST. The Gibson Chet Atkins SST was a solid body acoustic-electric designed by the musician Chet Atkins and manufactured and marketed by Gibson. The steel-string model was introduced in 1987 and was discontinued in 2006. [1] The Chet Atkins CE was the original nylon string version of 1982 and possibly the first of its kind.
The Gibson Country Western is a flat-top acoustic guitar model originally manufactured by the Gibson Guitar Corporation between 1956 (or 1955) and 1978. For the first 6 (7) years of its manufacture it was a round-shouldered instrument, which changed to square-shouldered in 1962. Sheryl Crow preferred the 1962 model, and uses a modern version of ...
GEWA music Gmbh. Website. ovationguitars.com. The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of string instruments. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. [5]
The new body design then became known as the SG (for "solid guitar"), due to disapproval from Les Paul himself. The original Les Paul design returned to the Gibson catalog in 1968. On December 22, 1969, Gibson parent company Chicago Musical Instruments was taken over by the South American brewing conglomerate ECL.
A single cutaway acoustic/electric guitar with solid spruce top, built-in pickup and pre-amp. A dreadnought acoustic guitar with laminated spruce top, available also as an acoustic/electric with built-in pickup and pre-amp and a third version adding built-in tuner, with 20 frets, 25.3" scale length, 1.69" width at nut, 2.24" width at heel and 3 ...
Aria was formed in Japan in 1956 by Shiro Arai as "Arai & Co., Inc". [1][2] They began retailing acoustic guitars in 1960, although the company did not start manufacturing their own until 1964. Aria arranged for Matsumoku, the musical instrument maker, to build the guitars for them under contract. Arai and Matsumoku started building acoustic ...
martinguitar.com. C.F. Martin & Company (often referred to as Martin) is an American guitar manufacturer established in 1833 by Christian Frederick Martin. It is highly respected for its acoustic guitars and is a leading manufacturer of flat top guitars and ukuleles. The company has also made mandolins and tiples, as well as several models of ...