Model

Gibson L-4

Archtop acoustic guitar model

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.

Sources

Category

  • Technical line drawing of Acoustic Guitars

    Acoustic Guitars

    Acoustic steel-string and nylon-string guitars, guitar model families, and related variants.

Made by

  • Gibson

    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.

Part of series

  • 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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