List of products manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporation

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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.

Guitars[]

Acoustic guitars[]

Electric guitars[]

Hollowbody and Semi-Hollowbody guitars[]

Solid-body guitars[]

Gibson Les Paul Spotlight Special Gibson Les Paul '59 Reissue Gibson Les Paul Artisan

Bass Guitars[]

Amplifiers[]

Mandolin Family[]

Acoustic[]

  • Mandolas
  • Mandocellos
    • K, K-1, K-2 (A-Style, oval soundhole) (1902 - ?)
    • K-4 (F-Style, oval soundhole) (1911 - ?)
    • k-5 Mandocello (based on the L-5 guitar - archtop guitar body with F-holes)
  • Mandobasses
    • J (F-Style, oval soundhole, fretted)

Electric[]

  • Hollowbody
    • (1938-1940) Acoustic-Electric A-style with F-Holes; Charlie Christian-style pickups with rounded ends
    • (1941-1943) Acoustic-Electric A-style with F-Holes; Charlie Christian-style pickups with rounded ends
    • (1936-1971) Acoustic-Electric A-style with F-Holes; Charlie Christian pickups (1936-1941); "sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickup (1941-1949); "Soapbar" P-90 style pickups (1949-1971)
    • (1950s) Acoustic-Electric F-style; "sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickups
    • (193?-194?) Acoustic-Electric A-style with F-Holes; Charlie Christian pickups
    • (193?-194?) Acoustic-Electric F-Style; Charlie Christian pickups/"sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickups

Gibson also reportedly produced a number of electric Mandocellos, starting in 1937.[4]

  • Solidbody
    • (1954-1971) "The Electric Florentine" Solidbody Electric; "sawed-off P-90" (rectangular screw pole) pickup
    • (late 1950s-late 1960s) Semi-hollow body double-neck electric guitar/mandolin; "Soapbar" P-90 style pickups. Some also as mando/bass and mando/tenor guitar.

Banjos[]

See Prewar Gibson banjo and American Banjo Museum
  • tenor banjos
  • plectrum banjos

Violin Family[]

Gibson ventured into the manufacture of violin-family instruments from 1939 until 1942. Supplies of commercial violins from Germany and Japan were unavailable due to World War II, giving American manufacturers a period of protection from overseas competition [5]

  • Violins
    • Model V-15
    • Model V-35
  • Violas
  • Cellos
    • Model G-110
  • Double Basses

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d http://www.guitarhq.com/gibson6.html
  2. ^ "Gibson.com: Gibson Frank Zappa® "Roxy" SG". Gibson.com. Gibson Brands, Inc. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
  3. ^ Power, Rob (May 8, 2013). "Gibson unveils Frank Zappa Roxy SG". MusicRadar. Future Plc. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
  4. ^ http://emando.com/builders_inactive/Gibson.htm
  5. ^ National Music Museum - University of South Dakota <url>http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Cellos/Gibson/14385/GibsonCello.html</url>

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