Saturday, September 26, 2009

Gibson electric guitar

One as an amateur guitarist has always been perplexed about the kind of electric guitar to purchase because of the various brands present in the market. The first that comes to mind is the Gibson electric guitar and if you ask a professional guitarist, the first thing that they would suggest is that you get yourself a Gibson. The Gibson electric guitar has been stated as being one of the world’s most commercial guitars used till date. The Gibson guitar corporation in Tennessee, USA launched its first solid body electric guitar in 1952 which was called Les Paul model designed by the famous guitarist Les Paul. The Les Paul model Gibson electric guitar became the most famous guitar of all time. And from then on the Gibson guitars have more or less become and industry standard and left the competition far behind. The list of famous musicians who played a Gibson electric guitar is just endless, from Eric Clapton to Peter Green, Duane Allman to Howlin’ wolf, Slash to The Edge.

The Gibson electric guitar is the state-of-art when it comes to light weight body, well tuned strings, slim neck and an excellent built in tuner. With so much history and quality associated with it, any guitar player during his career would love to own a Gibson electric guitar. There are various models of Gibson like Gibson CS 336 Electric Guitar, Gibson ES 137 Classic, Gibson SG 61 Reissue which we have reviewed.