Gibson Guitar.

Story of Gibson Guitar.

       In the summer of 1894, Orville Gibson, born in 1856 in Châteaugay, NY, USA, you could certainly imagine the influence that its actions would have in the next century. In his small workshop of mandolins in Kalamazoo (Michigan, USA) began production of mandolins characterized by high quality and great design studio.

       The quest for excellence made it possible to OrvilleGibson's 

patent for his greatest innovation: a mandolin with a completely re-engineered design, simple to build and pleasing to the ear. This was the only patent filed by Orville, who died later in 1918.

      Load Lloyd, an accomplished mandolin player of the time, he joined Gibson in 1919, continuing the legacy of Orville: the concepts of curvature. These gave birth to the F-5 mandolin and guitar L-5, the first key instruments for the classic holes to "f". The L-5 was imposed in the music scene and became the first guitar to play a key role in the orchestra, often replaced, the tenor banjo. Loar left the company in 1924, after studying a prototype electric bass that was not well received by the management of Gibson and the public. Both were not ready for a revolution so important.

BB King.

      The Depression saw the company range from the toy market in the music market, where he introduced a new line of violins (the same that inspired Orville at the beginning) and a line of acoustic guitars economic.

L-5

     Until 1937 the problems facing the engineers Gibson was the volume: the solutions were basically designed to try to dominate the volume of other instruments, especially brass. For this reason, engineers widened the case of the L-5 in 1934, allowing it to compete in volume with other instruments. However, the revolution was just around the corner, and from that moment on, the guitar would have a role in the development of the magic music.

ES-150

    Just in 1937 it became part of the first Gibson catalog-electric Spanish guitar, the ES-150. Other companies were already producing electric guitars (see the history of electric guitar), but the ES-150 was the first commercially successful . The instrument was designed to be amplified by the magnetic pickup which was equipped. It was this feature that allowed Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman Sextet and guitarist of the Orchestra, to invent a completely new style, which featured a guitar undisputed star of the music. Perhaps Christian ignored him, but he was creating something that lasts to this day.

      The Second World War marked a turnaround for the company. The lack of wood prevented the production of Gibson guitars, but the company is dedicated to profitably supply of wooden parts for the war industry.

ES-175

     In 1946, the filming and production of musical instruments, thanks to growing demand, was already shaping the commercial success of the company. In 1948 he was hired Ted McCarty, a veteran of the music industry, which later became president of the company. In 1949 it was introduced the ES-175, an electric guitar that made history and is still available today.

Les Paul.

     McCarty knew that Fender Telecaster with her, she was attacking the market. For this reason he decided to create an electric guitar solid body that followed the lines of Gibson and his production design trends. He signed a contract with the guitarist Les Paul to give his name to the new guitar, Les Paul. Les was a technological pioneer and had already developed a concept of all solid-body craft of cutting in half an Epiphone and producing "The Log", the trunk, in 1941. However, the contribution he gave to the development of the Les Paul was minimal.