The 75-year-old – who’s not sure how he gets his sound – almost gave up playing when Gibson discontinued the ES-125. Now he ...

The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

Gibson had shifted from Orville’s idiosyncratic creations to produce reliable models such as the L-4 archtop (1912) and the ...

With so much history carried by these guitars that helped shaped music from 1922 Gibson L-5 onwards, it's a good time to take stock with ten of many potential tonal archtop highlights. 1. D-Natural ...

I n the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...

The original Lucille was an inexpensive, small-bodied Gibson L-30 archtop, according to Rolling Stone. Then, there was Elvis and his collection of Gibson guitars. According to graceland.com .

The Carters bought a 1928 Gibson L-5 archtop guitar, an instrument that was larger and louder than other guitars on the market. The guitar cost $275 in the late 1920s, a price that today equates ...

Legendary instrument maker Orville Gibson invented the archtop guitar in the 1890s, creating a sweet sound that's a favorite among jazz, swing and some blues guitar players.

“Pattie,” A 1913 Gibson Style O Archtop Guitar Once Owned by Both Eric Clapton and George Harrison, Can Be Yours—for $1 Million. by Nick Stockton May 15, 2025, 4:31 pm.