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The Gibson Guitar corporation (short Gibson) with seat in Nashville, threshing floor lake, is one of the oldest American manufacturers of guitars, E-guitars and guitar amplifiers.

Orville H. Gibson

if name giver and founder of the later Gibson Guitar corporation are, 1856 were born as a youngest child of the married people John W. and Amy Nichols Gibson on a farm close Chateaugay in the State of New York. 1881 are the young Gibson in the personal card indices of Kalamazoo. After some jobs as shoe salesmen and accountants in a restaurant he has 1896 a shop for music instruments in the city center. In the spring 1902 it creates a company each kind of stringed instruments with 5 acquaintance manufactures, to buy and sell should. On 21 August 1918 Orville Gibson in the Hepburn hospital in Ogdensburg dies after long illness at the age of 62 years.

Development of the corporation

Since the year 1900 Gibson builds preferably Archtop guitars (jazz guitars, Schlag-Gitarren), thus acoustic guitars with a curved cover and Construction principle is ajar against that of the classical caper instruments. The first catalog of the company appears 1903. On 32 sides Mandolinen, Mandolas, guitars and "Harp" - guitars are offered.

Famous models, which are practically invariably built for and the 50's 30's, are for instance the Gibson super 400, the L5, Byrdland, ES-175.

Also the acoustic guitar with sound hole was from the outset produced by Gibson, itself later to the classical Westerngitarre after the model of the company C.F. Martin developed. Well-known models are for instance the J-45, the J-200 or the Hummingbird.

For the 40's also the first guitars with inserted pick-up Humbucker were produced for electrical reinforcement.

Beside the full resonance guitars mentioned Gibson builds also very successfully semi acoustic guitars, for instance the ES-335 (IT = Electric Spanish) since end of the 50's, which is less susceptible during the electrical reinforcement to feedbacks.

Still more consistently in this direction the center of the 50's published first solvently Body guitars of Gibson, thus, aimed to guitars with an acoustically resonierenden Massivholzkorpus with which the electrical reinforcement for the musical presentation is indispensable.

The most famous solvent Body model might be the Les Paul, which after the musician of the same name (that Lester William Polfus is actually called - it celebrated 2005 its 90.Geburtstag - whose artist name "Les Paul" is even) is designated. After Leo of Fenders success with the Telecaster (the 1. Industrially manufactured Solidbody guitar) wanted to draw even Gibson and one remembered the man years ago already with Gibson called, when he glued a full resonance guitar through-sawed and a timber beam into the instrument, however with the words "a broomstick with strings" was rejected. Thus a co-operation of many years with Les Paul developed for that coincidentally also still one the Topmusiker with his Mrs. Mary Ford at time at that time was. Further well-known Solidbody guitars is for instance the SG than a "more radical" form of the Les Paul developed because the sales numbers was too small; the Explorer, which found very strong allowance for the 70's in Heavy Metal circles, and which gave Flying V, a V-shaped one guitar, their appearance it the names and [[Gibson Firebird] Firebird], a guitar with "reverse" cut Korpus (with [Fender Stratocaster] for example the larger "horn" is at the top side, different with the Firebird). The Flying V was to their introduction a total commercial failure, like also its similarly strangely seeming sister, the Explorer. Compared with the other own brands only few guitars were sold, why production was again stopped soon. As an only sister the Firebird was continued to produce, however with "non reverse" Korpus, with which exactly the same, if not still worse sales figures were obtained. Only by musicians such as Albert King and Jimi Hendrix and other musicians of the 1970er years became the Flying V and their sisters again popular, the Firebird received again their old Design. Today are the guitars are much like and in all world are copied, like actually all products of the enterprise. One sees musicians such as Lenny Kravitz or Popa Chubby for example quite often with the Flying V.

Gibson manufactured likewise E-basses, which could become generally accepted however on the market not quite. Among the bassists, which played on Gibson, Jack Bruce ranked as a member of Cream, Krist Novoselic as a member of Nirvana, Mike Dirnt as a member of Green Day.

Also within the range of the guitar amplifiers was and is active Gibson, however do not be enough as successfully as in the range of the guitars.

The company Gibson is active also in the range banjo and Mandolinen. The Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs played Earl Scruggs as the first banjo a blue RB-11, then a Granada and finally golden the DeLuxe.

The Gibson banjo, those before the Second World War was manufactured (like e.g. the Granada RB) to belong in experts to the best their kind and is many times the choice of professional musicians.

Today belong to the Gibson Guitar Corp. under other one also the music instrument marks Epiphone, Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger, Wurlitzer as well as the Synthesizer mark upper home.