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These acoustic guitar kits come with a hard case, strap, picks, cap, string winder, tuner, guitar stand, and even polish.
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The story of Fender guitars, their rivalry with Gibson guitars and the role Les Paul made is more than a history.
It helps you understand how guitars are built, the commercial profits motives behind guitar body types and constructions. And it helps you decide which guitars are worth the money and how your investment in a guitar could mean the quality of the sound you make and some of the common challenges you may face like the fret buzz.
Adolph Rickenbacker, Les Paul, and Leo Fender are three names who contributed to the manufacturing of solid-body guitars.
The solid body design is faster to make, and it lends itself to mass production. Unlike an acoustic guitar with a top, and bottom and sides that takes several steps to make regardless of how you assemble it, a solid body design is mostly carving and shaping of fewer parts to mold and assemble.
Leo Fender’s ability to effectively create a manufacturing assembly line, promote and capitalize on solid body design interested Gibson Guitars to take another look at Les Paul’s design. Gibson has rejected Les Paul’s design a few years earlier.
Fender Esquire was the first electric solid-body commercially profitable guitar sold, and Gibson wanted a piece of the action. Les Paul had a prototype, the “Log” that he made in Epiphone factory that became the seed to create Gibson Les Paul.
Had Rickenbacker been successful to create a commercially feasible metal solid-body guitar as he tried, hard rock would have had a different meaning.
Had Leo Fender failed, John 5, Chris Shiflett, Brad Paisley, James Burton and Jonny Greenwood would probably sing romantic ballads on a Cordoba?
Perish the thought!
Esquire was later added a two-pickup and became the Broadcaster and finally, it was dubbed the Fender Telecaster®.
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The year is 1902. The place is Kalamazoo, Michigan. The man whose name continues to be intermixed with the sound of popular music is Orville Gibson.
In that year The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co., Ltd is born to make mandolins. Over the next two decades, the company’s direction focused on manufacturing guitars.
These are hollow body guitars with the warm sound that lends itself to playing jazz. In the 1950s, Gibson began noticing the popularity of Fender Telecaster and began working with solid-body electric guitars. “Les Paul” was released in 1952 began a legend.
Young beginner guitar enthusiasts know that Balkan size of the guitar impacts hardly hold it. They may not know that the size and the shape of the guitar also impact professionals.
In 1950s Gibson started looking to reducing the size of their bulky guitars without losing the quality of the sound. ES-335 was a result of their experiments. B.B.King playing on ES-335 was a resounding acknowledgment of their success.
The Flying V and the Explorer styles followed and failed to be resurrected about a decade later.
Gibson like any other manufacturer must be responsive to consumer demands. When consumer showed interest in double-cutaway body design 1960s, Gibson responded by changing the shape of Les Paul and release the SG
Ecuadorian Company Ltd. took notice and purchased Gibson in 1969. 1974 Gibson became part of Norlin Musical Instruments. Many believe that the guitars made by Gibson during that period are weak due to Norlin’s input.
The company’s reputation of this Michigan born company was tarnished during that period and needed to be reclaimed. In 1986, Henry E. Juszkiewicz, David H. Berryman, and Gary A. Zebrowski stepped in to do that.
They successfully restored the company’s reputation as the top guitar manufacturer in the world.
Most think of Gibson when do you think about electric guitars. Gibson also produces acoustic guitars and electric basses.
Throughout their history, Gibson has played a role in providing a range of affordable guitars as well as solid and more expensive guitars for pros.
A spruce-top dreadnought acoustic model Gibson J-45 was made in 1942 which is roughly $676 in today’s dollars. Gibson J-45 sold for about three times that much right now.
Still, for the time, there was an expensive guitar. A few years later ES-175 with the laminate top was introduced.
Les Paul has also gone through a few reincarnations and has given birth to slick, thinner, double-cutaway Gibson SG.
The price of Gibson guitars is usually out of the range of beginner guitar players. However, globalization is possible for most guitar manufacturers also have a subsidiary that makes more affordable prices without sacrificing the quality.
Epiphone feels that role for Gibson guitar by making guitars for beginners that retain the style and the intention of Gibson guitars.
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Different reasons drive our buying patterns. When it comes to guitars, the buying decision could be based on the size, the looks, the feel and the sound. It could be that a specific guitar reminds us or was owned by someone important to us. Sometimes we buy guitars just to own them and not to play.
If buying an American Made Guitar is a reason that is important to you, the list below could help. It is not a complete list and it is subject to change as businesses evolve or go out of business.
When you contact them, be sure to let them know that you are interested in American Made Guitars.
You may be 9 or 90 when you pick up your first guitar. You may love the classical sound acoustic guitar brands make, or you may enjoy the expressions that is only possible with bass guitar brands. Your favorite guitar changes with your expertise, experience, taste and age.
It is OK to change and it helps to know that you are not stuck with your first choice, at least not in guitar selection. However, it helps if you sit down and actually write down what it is that you are trying to accomplish. Consider this your first attempt in music composition. Instead of writing a song, you are writing down a list of the things you want to do with a guitar and what you expect in return. When you write down your dreams and expectation, it becomes easier to find what fits them best.
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