The Gibson Super 400 is an archtop guitar. It is a highly influential guitar model that inspired many other master guitar builders (including Elmer Stromberg...
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guitar named the "L5 Super", which was later renamed the Gibson Super 400. These two highly ornate acoustic guitars are Gibson's top-of-the-line carved...
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especially in the big band era of the 1930s; the Gibson Super 400 was widely imitated. In 1952, Gibson introduced its first solid-body electric guitar...
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guitars. It was designed by Ted McCarty (Gibson Guitar Corporation president) and introduced on the Gibson Super 400 guitar in 1953 and the Les Paul Custom...
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as well as several RCA cuts, and in 1957 he switched to a Gibson Super 400. This Super 400 was the guitar heard on the Jailhouse Rock and King Creole...
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ES-325 ES-330 ES-333 ES-335 ES-339 ES-345 ES-350T ES-355 ES-359 L-4 L-5 Super 400 335-S Blueshawk Chet Atkins CEC (Cutaway Electric Classical) Corvus EDS-1275...
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manufacturers denote instrument models with cutaway using the suffix C, such as the Gibson L5C or the Maton CW80C. Single cutaway types There are two main types of...
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ES-345 ES-350 ES-355 Gibson Lucille L-50 tenor version (TG-50) with L-7 ES-150 proto. (based on L-50) L-4 L-5 Byrdland Gibson Super 400 Tal Farlow Chet Atkins...
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archtop guitar is often credited to Orville Gibson, whose innovative designs led to the formation of the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co, Ltd in 1902. His...
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1954, Jimmie Webster sought to design a guitar to improve upon the Gibson Super 400. He wanted a "Dream Guitar," and gained his inspiration by walking...
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