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Gibson electric steel guitars : 1935-1967 / by A.R. Duchossoir.

by Duchossoir, A. R.

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Hal Leonard, 2009.

Hawaiian guitar.

9781423457022 (hbk.)

1423457021 (hbk.)

159 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes index.

The origins of the Gibson Company : Orville Gibson and the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd -- Gibson & the Hawaiian guitar (1926-1934) : the introduction of the first Gibson acoustic Hawaiian guitars -- Gibson's first modern electric guitar (1935-1936) : the metal electric Hawaiian guitar and the debut of the EH-150 & EH-100 -- Only a Gibson steel is good enough! (1937-1939) : from double-neck models to the hybrid-con[s]truction EH-185 -- The final salvo of pre-war models (1940-1943) : new pickups and the inception of the first pedal-steel guitar -- The dawning of a new era (1944-1947) : from the BR-1 to the BR-9 : the Barnes & Reinecke designs -- A fresh impulse into the fifties (1948-1954) : the revamped models unveiled after Ted McCarty's appointment -- Innovations on all fronts (1955-1957) : from the triple-neck Multiharp pedal steel to the modernistic Skylark -- A long final slide (1958-1967) : 10 years of attrition until complete extinction.

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