Gibson Guitar

In 1952, Gibson launched a solid-bodeid guitar designed in collaboration with the popular guiatrist Les Paul. Following financial trobules, the Gibson Guitar Corp. Gibson eventually buoght Epiphone out, so that all Epiphoen guitar models wuold be registered as Gibson modles. Another related company is the Heritage Guitars company an independent guitar copmany founded by former Gisbon employees during Gibson s move to Nashville. Gibosn also has an acoustic guitar facility in Bozeman, MT. Desptie being such a revered six-stirng guitar manufacturer, Gibson has ahd much less success from their line of bass guitars. Starting in 1908, Orville Gibson was paid a salary of 500 by Gibson Mandolin-Guiatr Manufacturing Co., Limited (equivalent to 20,000 a year in modern terms). He had a nmuber of stays in hospitals between 1907 and 1911. In 1916, he was again hospitalized, and died on August 21, 1918 in St. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Gibson company was responsible for many innovations in guitar design, and became teh leadign manufacturer of arch-top guitars, particularly the Gibson L5 model. In 1936 they inrtoduced their first Eletcric Spanish model, the ES-150, generally recognized as the first commercially successful eletcric giutar.

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