This is the display shown at 2009 NAMM, they had about 24 r9 50th anniversary
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Medford, OR (PRWEB) July 28, 2008

Private Reserve Guitars is offering two new Gibson guitars; one commemorating a significant artist, the second marking the introduction of an iconic electric guitar. In honor of master bluesman, Johnny Winter, Gibson has introduced the Gibson Johnny Winter signature Gibson Custom Shop Firebird. In celebration of the 1958 Les Paul anniversary, Gibson is offering the Custom 50th Anniversary 1958 Flame Top Les Paul Guitar.

The Gibson Custom Johnny Winter Signature Guitar is a limited-edition Gibson Firebird V that pays tribute to the bluesman, songwriter, and producer who began recording at the age of 15 and went on to perform at Woodstock in 1969. High points in Winters’ career include production of two Grammy-winning albums by Muddy Waters, his own lengthy roster of critically and commercially successful blues and rock albums, and his induction into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988. Johnny Winter still tours regularly, well known for his slide guitar chops, soulful blues, and incendiary rock guitar. Gibson’s artist model Firebird V is a careful re-creation of Johnny Winter’s iconic guitar, the 1963 Gibson Firebird V. This futuristic solidbody guitar features a mahogany and walnut body with rosewood fretboard and delivers impressive tone from a pair of mini humbuckers at the bridge and neck.

The Gibson Custom 50th Anniversary 1958 Les Paul Standard Guitar was meticulously crafted in a limited run of 200 and features a flame top that’s been carefully aged by guitar guru Tom Murphy. The guitar has all the vintage appointments of the original that first debuted in 1958 including an aluminum stop tailpiece, vintage tulip-style tuners, and tortoise side position markers. The thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish has been applied using the practices that were standard in 1958. The Gibson Les Paul sports a nickel-plated stopbar and two BurstBucker pickups at the neck and bridge which have been custom-wound to emulate the original ’50s Gibson humbuckers. This Les Paul incorporates CTS potentiometers for volume and tone, as well as the bumblebee capacitors, custom-made for Gibson to precisely replicate the original electronics.

Visit Private Reserve Guitars for complete details on both of these landmark guitars.

About Private Reserve Guitars

Private Reserve Guitars specializes in new, and occasionally used, high-end stringed instruments from respected luthiers worldwide along with a vast array of acoustic and electric guitar accessories. Private Reserve Guitars provides customers with photos and descriptions of individual guitars, as well as personal contact with a dedicated guitar tech to help them make their decisions on serialized instruments. Unlike other musical instrument boutiques, Private Reserve Guitars is backed by direct music dealer Musician’s Friend, whose 25 years of business bring vast experience and buying power to the high-end guitar market.

Located in Medford, Oregon with warehousing in Kansas City and a call center in Salt Lake, Private Reserve Guitars can be contacted at 877-737-3781.

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Version 3 of the Gibson Custom 1960 50th Anniversary Les Paul

Medford, OR (PRWEB) February 25, 2010

Direct seller of music gear Musician’s Friend proudly offers three variations of Gibson Custom 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Guitars released this month to commemorate the last original production year for the Les Paul “Burst” guitar.

The Gibson 1960 Les Paul guitar has been played by many famous musicians—John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Howard Leese (Heart/Bad Company), Paul McCartney (Beatles), and Paul Kossoff on the rock classic “All Right Now” among them—and has secured its spot as a well-loved mainstay in many artists’ collections.

Appealing sunburst finishes, top-hat control knobs, and characteristic neck profiles are part of the package; and the subtle differences among the three variations narrate how the specs evolved over the course of 1960.

Gibson Custom Les Paul – Version 1

At the start of 1960, the Gibson Les Paul retained the same specs as its predecessor from 1959, although it did receive the official “Les Paul Standard” designation in place of the former “Les Paul Model” (a name that its headstock nonetheless still retained). So the first version of the 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar might be confused for a 1959 Les Paul Model if not for the 1960 serial number stamped into the back of the guitar’s headstock at the dawn of the decade, and the R0 serial number of this 50th Anniversary model. It’s available in Heritage Cherry Sunburst and Heritage Dark Burst finishes.

Gibson Custom Les Paul – Version 2

Available from Musician’s Friend now, the Gibson Custom 50th Anniversary Les Paul Standard Guitar represents the neck’s transition from full to slim. This progression was gradual, rather than sudden—in the form of a Custom Shop 50th Anniversary Gibson Les Paul with thinner, yet still somewhat rounded and “elliptical” neck profile, based on painstaking research and detailed scans of several transitional ’60s Les Paul electric guitars that were studied by the Custom Historic and Engineering team. To represent this alteration visibly, Version 2 of the 1960 Gibson Les Paul is offered in two classic “faded” Burst colors: Light Iced Tea Burst and Sunset Tea Burst.

Gibson Custom Les Paul – Version 3

The third variation of Gibson Custom 50th Anniversary 1960 Les Paul Electric Guitar Regular ’60s Cherryburst is represented by a guitar with the slim-taper neck for which late-’60 Les Pauls have become famous, along with the double-band tuners and gold top-hat control knobs with the “new” silver inserts that were fitted to these guitars. Furthermore, Version 3 accurately represents the changes in the finishing process at Gibson in the latter part of 1960—in its more vibrant, colorfast Cherry Sunburst, a finish that stood the test of time somewhat better than many of the sunbursts that preceded it.

These Gibson guitars all come with a Custom Shop hardshell case and a 50th Anniversary Certificate of Authenticity.

About Musician’s Friend:

Musician’s Friend, Inc. is the world’s largest direct marketer of musical instruments and has been headquartered in Medford, Oregon, since its inception in 1983. With more than 70,000 unique products for sale, the company covers a wide range of musical needs, including guitars, basses, amplifiers, keyboards, live sound, recording equipment, drums, percussion, woodwind, brasswind, and orchestral stringed instruments, as well as related accessories that are marketed through its print catalogs and websites, including musiciansfriend.com.

The Musician’s Friend website also offers informative musicians’ resources, including in-depth buying guides, tech tips, hands-on gear reviews, articles from highly respected music industry professionals, interviews with well-known artists, and 860,000 customer-written product reviews and ratings.

With warehousing in Kansas City, Missouri, and a call center in Salt Lake City, Utah, Musician’s Friend can be contacted at 800-776-5173.

Musician’s Friend is a wholly owned subsidiary of Guitar Center, the world’s leading retailer of musical equipment.

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