Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex-Gibson...
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The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (or Bigsby for short) is a type of mechanical vibrato device for electric guitar designed by Paul Bigsby and produced by...
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mislabeled as a tremolo arm) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars. Paul built an early steel guitar for Southern California steel guitarist Earl "Joaquin"...
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Fender (company) (redirect from Fender guitars)
acoustic guitars, bass amplifiers and public address equipment; however, it is best known for its solid-body electric guitars and bass guitars, particularly...
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"LTD Guitars and Basses", "Navigator", "Edwards Guitars and Basses", and "Grassroots". In 1975, Hisatake Shibuya opened a shop called Electric Sound...
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Bigsby on his 1958 Gibson Flying V electric guitar. The Bigsby remains popular, especially on hollow-body guitars. It's available as a factory-fitted...
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(1899–1968), American guitar maker, inventor and motorcycle racer/mechanic Bigsby Electric Guitars, a company named after Paul Bigsby Bigsby vibrato tailpiece...
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Ted McCarty (section The "Theodore" Guitar)
Company and the Gibson Guitar Corporation. In 1966, he and Gibson Vice President John Huis bought the Bigsby Electric Guitar Company. At Gibson he was...
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of the steel guitar. The pedals operated a mechanical linkage to apply tension to raise the pitch of the strings. Bigsby built guitars incorporating...
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There are several types of electric guitar. Early forms were hollow-body semi-acoustic guitars, while solid body guitars developed later. String configurations...
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Gibson Brands (redirect from Gibson Electric Guitars)
was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie...
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mounted tailpiece, stoptail bridge, or Bigsby vibrato tailpiece 14th-fret and set-in neck join The archtop guitar is often credited to Orville Gibson, whose...
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they are acoustic or electric, but in either case, do not have pedals, distinguishing them from pedal steel guitars. The steel guitar was the first "foreign"...
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Kiesel Guitars is an American manufacturer of custom electric guitars and electric bass guitars located in Southern California, with a heritage dating...
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guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. In 2015, it became a subsidiary of Drum...
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Instead, Cort produces a wide variety of electric guitars, acoustic guitars, acoustic bass guitars, and electric basses. Aero Classic Rock EVL Performer...
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of guitars sold by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Jackson was originally an independent manufacturer of electric guitars and electric bass...
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Gibson Les Paul (redirect from Les Paul (guitar))
Les Pauls with three humbuckers. Some of these limited run guitars were also fitted with Bigsby tailpieces. The neck is mahogany, but the sides and back...
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Ibanez (redirect from Ibanez Guitars)
import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce seven-string and eight-string guitars. Ibanez...
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C. F. Martin & Company (redirect from Martin Guitars)
of flat top guitars and ukuleles. The company has also made mandolins and tiples, as well as several models of electric guitars and electric basses, although...
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Tampa, Florida. Its products include solid-body electric guitars, bass guitars, and acoustic guitars. The company also distributes resonators, basses...
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classical guitars, ukuleles and, for a time, solid and hollow-body electric guitars and basses. In the late 1960s, St. Louis Music's founder, Gene Kornblum...
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Schecter offered, for the first time, its own fully assembled electric guitars. These guitars were custom shop models based on Fender designs. They were...
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Rickenbacker (redirect from Rickenbacker Guitars)
credited as the first known maker of electric guitars – a steel guitar in 1932 – and today produces a range of electric guitars and basses. Adolph Rickenbacher...
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Gretsch (redirect from Gretsch Guitar)
Atkins to manufacture a line of electric guitars with Atkins' endorsement, resulting in the Gretsch 6120 hollowbody guitar and other later models such as...
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Kramer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses. Kramer produced aluminum-necked electric guitars and basses in the 1970s and...
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Paul Reed Smith Guitars, also known as PRS Guitars or simply PRS, is an American guitar and amplifier manufacturer located in Stevensville, Maryland....
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multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes...
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types of electric guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars (used in jazz guitar, blues and rockabilly) and solid-body guitars, which are...
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acoustic guitars and semi-hollow electric guitars. It is one of the largest manufacturers of acoustic guitars in the United States and sells guitars in 65...
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