1950 National 1111 Aristocrat Hollowbody Jumbo Electric Guitar


1950 National 1111 Aristocrat Hollowbody Jumbo Electric Guitar

ES-225 neck profiles and frets evolved throughout the 1950s, and they tracked the Les Paul models very closely. Besides the buttons, the Kluson tuners are identical, too, so that leaves the thinline body as the only significant point of difference.


1950's Vintage Kay "Thin Twin" Double Pickup Electric Guitar Electric

In 1928, instrument makers Stromberg-Voisinet created the first commercially produced electric guitar, four years after Gibson fitted an electromagnetic device to violas and basses that picked up.


1950s Harmony H44 Stratotone Electric Guitar

But by the end of the '50s, guitarists were beginning to consider the solid body guitar as its own animal - the boundaries of guitar sound were expanding. Just about every musical icons of the '60s played their first notes on Silvertone guitars in the 1950s. Jimi Hendrix named his 1956 Silvertone "Betty Jean," after his girlfriend.


1950s Harmony H50 Vintage Archtop Electric Guitar Gibson P13 Sunburst

The Century was an archtop electric produced by Epiphone starting in 1939. After the Gibson takeover in 1957, the model was continued in a somewhat altered format. In 1959 a P-90 pickup replaced the earlier Epiphone-built New York pickups. Years of Production: 1939 - 1970Body Style:&nbs.


1950's Kay 6550 from Folkway Music Vintage electric guitars, Cool

The original Airline guitars were cheap, plastic (or rather, "Res-O-Glass") models made between 1958-1968 and sold by Montgomery Ward via shops […] We've talking about…. Thanks for Signing Up! Powered by WordPress. AwesomeOne theme by Flythemes. This is an awesome page about 1950's Vintage Guitars at MyRareGuitars.com!


1950s Guitars Pictures & History

About This Listing. Grab yourself a slice of guitar history with this Gibson ES-125 from 1950s! A true classic, countless musicians have played the ES-125, from Bill Frisell to Joe Pass to Tracy Chapman. With double P90 pickups and no cutaway, this thinline electric archtop was Gibson's successor to the ES-100, eventually discontinued in the 1970s.


Vintage 1950's Old Kraftsman electric bass guitar made in USA Reverb

By the mid-1950s, electric guitar players had two choices: either a full hollowbody electric guitar or a compact solidbody. Gibson had been receiving requests from players for something in-between the two styles, so in 1955 the first Thinline electrics were developed. They were the high-end Byrdland, the ES-350T and the low-end ES-225T.


1950s Guitars Pictures & History

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1950's Vintage Silvertone by Kay Guitar 57A 1381 RARE! Guitar

A countdown of the best guitar songs and riffs of the 1950s including songs by Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bo Diddley, Johnny Cash, and more. Simon Mor.


1950s Vega E50 Hollowbody Electric Guitar

John Smith Hurt, (July 3, 1893, U.S.—November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country-blues singer and guitarist who first recorded in the late 1920s but whose greatest fame and influence came when he was rediscovered in the early 1960s at the height of the American folk music revival.


Used Gibson Les Paul Standard 1950S Neck Solid Body Electric Guitar

1950s Inspired by the vintage finds of the golden era of electric guitar making, the 1950s Series offers features and sonic capabilities of those memorable instruments but with modern day appointments and production techniques. All models feature an exotic wood top and contoured arm cut, master volume and master tone controls.


Classic Vibe 1950S Precision Bass Electric Bass Guitar Guitar Center

Let's state first that we're only interested in and writing about electric guitars manufactured from the 1950's through the very early 1970's. We consider this period to be the most significant in the history of vintage electric guitar collecting for these low-end beauties.


1950s Harmony H50 Vintage Archtop Electric Guitar Gibson P13 Sunburst

The 1950s laid the groundwork for the explosion of guitar solos in the 1960s. Solos in the 50s were relatively short.. Cochran played all the guitars on the song that ended up on several international charts at the time. The song later gained greater fame through hit versions by Blue Cheer (1968) and The Who (1970). The song has also been.


1950s Vega E202 Hollowbody Electric Guitar

1. Scotty Moore's schizophrenic solo on Elvis Presley's "Too Much" (1957). Of the 11 Elvis songs to hit #1 during the 50s, this one contains the craziest guitar work. The song is based on a 12-bar blues progression, and the solo starts out well enough with some aggressive energy and a slightly dirty tone (distortion not yet being a thing).


Gibson ES5 1950s Electric Guitar Owned By Ray Benson Of Reverb

Gibson. Gretsch. Harmony. WFT/Ludwig. Hohner. Martin. Shure. Although many improvements were made in recording equipment and instruments alike in the 1950s, it paled in comparison to the inventiveness that was to come in the 1960s. Learn more about 1950s instruments by reading the very interesting text in the vintage catalog pictures below.


Your Grandpa's Guitar 1950's Kay K161 Thin Twin Electric Guitar AKA

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