Gibson (guitar company)
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Gibson, Inc. is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
Gibson Guitar Factory in Memphis, Tennessee in May 2009
Orville Gibson, founder
Gibson line of Mandolin orchestra instruments, early 1900s.
Harp guitar (c. 1912).
Orville Gibson
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Orville H. Gibson was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
Gibson (guitar company)
…manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Orville Gibson started making instruments in 1894 and founded the company in 1902 as the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make…
In this 1908 advertisement, Gibson aggressively promoted the idea that his mandolins represented progress. It disparaged the older round-back mandolins as "potato bugs", swept into the dead sea by the "new era broom".
US Patent No. 598.245, patent drawing for the archtop mandolin
1921 A4 mandolin (pickguard was removed)