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Gibson · Models
Gibson is an American guitar manufacturer founded in 1902 and based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is known for archtop, hollow-body, and solid-body electric guitars such as the Les Paul, SG, and ES-335, as well as acoustic flat-tops.
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Gibson F-5
United States
The Gibson F-5 is the archetypal F-style mandolin, introduced in 1922 and refined under acoustic engineer Lloyd Loar. It pairs a carved solid spruce top with figured maple back and sides, violin-style f-holes, a longer neck with fifteen frets clear of the body, and the scrolled body that became the reference design for bluegrass mandolins.
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Gibson Explorer
Electric guitar · United States
Unveiled in 1958, the Explorer features a radical angular body that was far ahead of its time and sold poorly at first. Built from mahogany with two humbuckers, it was later embraced by hard rock and heavy metal players who prized its bold look and powerful tone.
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Gibson SG Supreme
Electric guitar · United States
An upscale SG featuring a figured maple top and fancier appointments than the Standard. It pairs the lightweight, fast SG body with premium cosmetics.
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Gibson Tal Farlow
Acoustic guitar · United States
A signature archtop developed with jazz guitarist Tal Farlow and introduced in 1962, drawn from Gibson's electric archtop line. It is distinguished by a sweeping decorative inlay that curls around the cutaway.
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Gibson Les Paul Classic
Electric guitar · United States
A Les Paul that combines a vintage-styled look with a slim 1960s-profile neck and higher-output pickups, originally marketed with a "1960" theme. It was designed to deliver classic Les Paul character with a faster-playing feel.
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Gibson Les Paul Junior
Electric guitar · United States
A no-frills Les Paul introduced in 1954 as an affordable student model, built from a slab mahogany body with a single P-90 pickup. Its simple, raw, and powerful tone has made it a long-standing favorite of punk and rock players.
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Gibson Les Paul Studio
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1983, the Les Paul Studio strips away cosmetic binding and luxury appointments to lower the price while keeping the mahogany-and-maple body and humbucking pickups that give the Les Paul its core tone. It was conceived as a no-frills working musician's instrument.
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Gibson ES-330
Electric guitar · United States
A fully hollow thinline electric with no center block, the ES-330 uses P-90 pickups and a neck that joins the body high up. Lighter and more acoustically lively than the semi-hollow ES-335, it has a raw, airy voice prone to a touch of feedback.
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Gibson ES-150
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1936, the ES-150 was Gibson's first successful electric Spanish guitar and an instrument that helped launch amplified jazz. Its bar pickup became known as the "Charlie Christian" pickup after the pioneering guitarist who made the model famous.
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Gibson Les Paul Custom
Electric guitar · United States
The deluxe Les Paul introduced in 1954 and nicknamed the "Black Beauty," with multi-ply binding, an ebony fingerboard, block inlays, and gold hardware. It is the tuxedo of the Les Paul line, prized for both its elegant looks and its full tone.
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Gibson Flying V
Electric guitar · United States
Launched in 1958 as part of Gibson's futuristic line, the Flying V's striking V-shaped body was initially a commercial flop but later became an icon. Built of mahogany with two humbuckers, it found a home with blues, rock, and metal players drawn to its aggressive look and clear sustain.
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Gibson Moderne
Guitar
The Moderne is a radically styled electric guitar Gibson designed in 1957 alongside the Flying V and Explorer as part of its modernistic line. Whether any examples were actually built in the 1950s is debated, which has made it one of Gibson's most legendary guitars; the company finally put the Moderne into production in 1982.
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Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom
Electric guitar · United States
A Les Paul that blends the slim-neck Classic platform with the upscale cosmetic appointments of a Custom, including extra body binding and fancier hardware. It offers Custom-style flash on a Classic-style instrument.
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Gibson SG
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1961 as a radical redesign of the Les Paul, the SG has a thin, all-mahogany double-cutaway body with sharply pointed horns. Lightweight, fast-playing, and biting in tone, it became a rock mainstay in the hands of players like Angus Young and Tony Iommi.
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Gibson Les Paul Supreme
Electric guitar · United States
A high-end Les Paul with a figured maple top and back, lavish binding and inlays, and often a chambered body. It sits at the ornate, premium end of the Les Paul range.
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Gibson ES-355
Electric guitar · United States
The deluxe member of the ES-335 family, the ES-355 adds multi-ply binding, an ebony fingerboard, gold hardware, and often stereo wiring with a Varitone tone selector. It is the upscale, fully appointed version of Gibson's classic semi-hollow design.
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Gibson Country Western
Acoustic guitar · United States
A square-shouldered dreadnought flat-top from Gibson's golden era, closely related to the Southern Jumbo but offered in a natural finish. Its large body and strong projection made it a workhorse for country and folk rhythm playing.
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Gibson ES-335
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1958, the ES-335 was the first commercially successful semi-hollow electric, pairing hollow wings with a solid maple center block. That design blends the warmth and resonance of a hollow body with the sustain and feedback resistance of a solid, making it one of the most versatile electrics ever built.
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Gibson Les Paul
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1952 as Gibson's first solid-body electric, the Les Paul pairs a mahogany body with a carved maple top and a glued-in neck. With its twin humbucking pickups, rich sustain, and thick tone, it stands alongside the Stratocaster as one of the two defining electric guitars of rock and blues.
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Gibson EB-0
Electric bass · United States
A short-scale electric bass introduced in 1959 that soon adopted the slim, double-horned SG body shape. A single large humbucker mounted near the neck gives it a deep, round, bass-heavy tone.
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Gibson L-00
United States
A small-bodied flat-top from the 1930s, the L-00 became a staple of blues and folk players for its punchy, focused tone and comfortable size. Its affordable, no-frills design has made original examples sought-after vintage instruments.
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Gibson Les Paul Faded DC
Electric guitar · United States
A double-cutaway Les Paul finished in a satin, worn-looking "faded" nitrocellulose finish. The stripped-back cosmetics keep the price down while the twin-cutaway body improves access to the upper frets.
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Gibson Firebird
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1963 with a styling brief from automotive designer Ray Dietrich, the Firebird has a reverse-offset body, through-body neck construction, mini-humbucking pickups, and banjo-style tuners. Its bright, cutting tone and distinctive look set it apart from Gibson's other electrics.
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Gibson L-7
Acoustic guitar · United States
A non-cutaway carved-top archtop from the 1930s, the L-7 sat in the upper tier of Gibson's acoustic archtop line. Its strong projection made it well suited to rhythm work in jazz and dance bands.
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Gibson L-1
United States
An early Gibson model that began as an archtop and was reborn as a small flat-top in the mid-1920s. The flat-top L-1 is closely associated with early blues and is remembered through its links to Delta blues history.
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Gibson Lucille
United States
B.B. King's signature guitar, based on the ES-355 but built without f-holes to cut down on feedback at high volume. Named after King's own guitar, it features stereo wiring and a Varitone tone selector for a refined, smooth voice.
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Gibson Chet Atkins SST
Electric guitar · United States
A thin solid-body acoustic-electric introduced in 1987 and developed with Chet Atkins, designed to deliver flat-top tone at high volume without feedback. It uses a piezo bridge transducer in a chambered solid body, giving stage players an amplified steel-string voice in an electric-style instrument.
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Gibson L-5
Acoustic guitar · United States
Introduced in 1922 under acoustic engineer Lloyd Loar, the L-5 was the first guitar with f-holes and set the template for the modern archtop. As Gibson's premier jazz and big-band guitar, it was played by figures from Maybelle Carter to Wes Montgomery.
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Gibson J-160E
Guitar
The J-160E is an early acoustic-electric flat-top guitar Gibson introduced in 1954, combining a round-shouldered acoustic body with a single-coil pickup at the end of the fingerboard. It is famous as a key guitar of the early Beatles, used by both John Lennon and George Harrison.
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Gibson L Series
Acoustic guitar · United States
Gibson's long-running L line covers a range of archtop and flat-top acoustic guitars dating back to the early twentieth century, from small flat-tops like the L-00 and L-1 to premier carved archtops like the L-5. The series reflects much of Gibson's early acoustic history.
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Gibson J-200
Acoustic guitar · United States
Often called the "King of the Flat-Tops," the J-200 is Gibson's ornate super jumbo, with a large maple body, a decorative moustache bridge, and elaborate appointments. Its big, bold voice and showy looks made it a favorite of country and rock stars alike.
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Gibson Thunderbird
Electric bass · United States
The bass companion to the Firebird, introduced in 1963 with the same reverse-offset body and through-body neck construction. Its mini-humbucking pickups give it a deep, growling tone that has anchored countless rock recordings.
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Gibson Barney Kessel
Guitar
The Barney Kessel is a hollow-body archtop jazz guitar that Gibson made in the 1960s as a signature model for jazz guitarist Barney Kessel. It features twin sharp Florentine cutaways, two humbucking pickups, and bowtie fingerboard inlays.
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Gibson ES-135
Electric guitar · United States
A thinline hollow-body electric reissued in the 1990s, built with a center block for added stability. Fitted with P-90 pickups and a trapeze tailpiece, it offers a bright, punchy semi-hollow voice at an accessible price.
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Gibson ES Series
United States
Gibson's ES (Electric Spanish) line covers the company's hollow and semi-hollow archtop electric guitars, from early jazz boxes such as the ES-150 to the landmark semi-hollow ES-335 and its deluxe sibling the ES-355. The series has been central to jazz, blues, and rock since the 1930s.
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Gibson Dove
Guitar
The Dove is a square-shouldered dreadnought acoustic guitar Gibson introduced in 1962. Known for its maple back and sides and its dove-motif pickguard and bridge, it is one of Gibson's flagship flat-tops and a long-running companion to the Hummingbird.
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Gibson Les Paul Standard
Electric guitar · United States
The benchmark Les Paul, with a carved maple top, two humbuckers, and a sunburst finish. Original 1958–1960 "Bursts" are among the most coveted electric guitars ever made, and the model defines the classic Les Paul sound.
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Gibson ES-175
Electric guitar · United States
A hollow-body archtop introduced in 1949 with a pressed laminated top and a pointed cutaway, the ES-175 became one of the most enduring jazz guitars. Its warm, woody tone and resistance to feedback made it a studio and bandstand standard for decades.
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Gibson L-4
Acoustic guitar · United States
A carved-top archtop guitar that Gibson produced for decades beginning in the early twentieth century. Built as an acoustic archtop, it was a mainstay of rhythm playing before pickups became common.
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Gibson Blueshawk
Guitar
The Blueshawk is a compact, chambered electric guitar Gibson introduced in the 1990s, related to its Nighthawk model. It uses single-coil-sized Blues 90 pickups and a Vari-tone-style rotary tone selector, giving it a lighter body and a more vintage, bluesy voice than a typical Gibson.
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Gibson SG Standard
Electric guitar · United States
The core version of the SG, with a slim mahogany double-cutaway body and two humbucking pickups. Light and aggressive, it is the model most players picture when they think of the SG.
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Gibson U2
Electric guitar
A solid-body electric from Gibson's short-lived USA Series of the late 1980s, the U-2 was a superstrat-style instrument built to compete with the high-performance guitars popular at the time. It marked one of Gibson's attempts to enter the modern, hot-rodded guitar market.
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Gibson Robert Johnson L-1
Guitar
The Robert Johnson L-1 is a Gibson flat-top acoustic guitar issued as a tribute to blues pioneer Robert Johnson, who was famously photographed holding an L-1. It revives the small-bodied flat-top L-1 design of the early twentieth century.