Gibson SG, the Glossary
The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar model introduced by Gibson in 1961, following on from the 1952 Gibson Les Paul.[1]
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65 relations: AC/DC, Angus Young, Birch, Black Sabbath, Chicago Musical Instruments, Cream (band), Crises (album), Cutaway (guitar), Derek Trucks, Discovery (Mike Oldfield album), Ebony, Eden of Coronet, Electric guitar, Epiphone, Epiphone G-400, Eric Clapton, Fender Stratocaster, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Gibson Brands, Gibson EB-0, Gibson EB-3, Gibson EDS-1275, Gibson Kalamazoo, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson Les Paul Special, Gibson Melody Maker, Gibson RD, Gibson SG Junior, Gibson SG Special, Guitar synthesizer, Humbucker, Islands (Mike Oldfield album), Jackie Lomax, Jimmy Page, John Cipollina, Lamination, Les Paul, Mahogany, Maple, Mary Ford, Mike Oldfield, Mike Oldfield albums discography, P-90, Pearloid, Pete Townshend, Pickup (music technology), Quicksilver Messenger Service, Robby Krieger, Rosewood, ... Expand index (15 more) »
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AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.
Angus Young
Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC.
Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.
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Chicago Musical Instruments
Chicago Musical Instruments Co. (CMI), later known as Norlin Music, was a manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments, accessories, and equipment, which at times had controlling interests in Gibson Guitars (1944 to 1969), Standel, Lowrey, F. E. Olds & Son (brass instruments), William Lewis & Son Co.
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Cream (band)
Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966.
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Crises (album)
Crises is the eighth studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 27 May 1983 on Virgin Records.
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Cutaway (guitar)
A cutaway on the guitar construction is an indentation in the upper bout of the guitar body adjacent to the guitar neck, designed to allow easier access to the upper frets.
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Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band.
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Discovery (Mike Oldfield album)
Discovery is the ninth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 25 June 1984 on Virgin Records.
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Ebony
Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.
Eden of Coronet
The Eden of Coronet is a customized Gibson SG guitar, made with 18-karat white gold and studded with 11,441 diamonds.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.
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Epiphone
Epiphone is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908.
Epiphone G-400
The G-400 (or sometimes G400) is an Epiphone solid body electric guitar model produced as a more modestly priced version of the famous Gibson SG.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
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Gibson Brands
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Gibson EB-0
The Gibson EB-0 is a bass guitar that was introduced by Gibson in 1959.
Gibson EB-3
The Gibson EB-3 is an electric bass guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
Gibson EDS-1275
The Gibson EDS-1275 is a double neck Gibson electric guitar introduced in 1963 and still in production.
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Gibson Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo is the name for two different lines of instruments produced by Gibson.
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Gibson Les Paul
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.
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Gibson Les Paul Special
The Gibson Les Paul Special is a variation of the Gibson Les Paul guitar.
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Gibson Melody Maker
The Gibson Melody Maker is an electric guitar made by Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Gibson RD
The Gibson RD series solid body electric guitars were launched in 1977.
Gibson SG Junior
The Gibson SG Junior is a solid-bodied electric guitar manufactured by Gibson from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.
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Gibson SG Special
The Gibson SG Special is an electric guitar made by Gibson that has been manufactured since 1961.
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Guitar synthesizer
A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical instrument systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities.
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Humbucker
A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups.
Islands (Mike Oldfield album)
Islands is the 11th album by Mike Oldfield, released on 28 September 1987 by Virgin in the UK.
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Jackie Lomax
John Richard Lomax (10 May 1944 – 15 September 2013) was an English guitarist and singer-songwriter.
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
John Cipollina
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
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Lamination
μCT scanning) through the length of a knitting needle that consists of laminated wooden layers: the layers can be differentiated by the change of direction of the wood's vessels Shattered windshield lamination keeps shards in place Laminate flooring A flexible thin-film solar cell for aerospace use (2007) Lamination is the technique/process of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance, or other properties from the use of the differing materials, such as plastic.
Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
Mahogany
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012).
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
Mary Ford
Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers; July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977) was an American guitarist and vocalist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford.
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.
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Mike Oldfield albums discography
This is the albums discography of English musician Mike Oldfield.
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P-90
The P-90 (sometimes written P90) is a single coil electric guitar pickup produced by Gibson Guitar Corporation since 1946, as well as other vendors.
Pearloid
Pearloid is a plastic that is intended to resemble mother of pearl.
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco.
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Robby Krieger
Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist and founding member of the rock band the Doors.
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Rosewood
Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours.
Set-in neck
A set-in neck (often shortened to set neck) is the traditional form of joining the neck of a stringed instrument with its body.
Shadow on the Wall (song)
"Shadow on the Wall" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1983 by Virgin Records.
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Shine (Mike Oldfield song)
"Shine" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1986.
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born Rosetta Nubin, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Solid body
Sound sample of solid-body electric guitar. A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly detect the vibrations of the strings; these instruments are usually plugged into an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard.
Swamp ash
Swamp ash is a common name for several North American trees in the genus Fraxinus which may grow in swamps and other wetlands.
Ted McCarty
Theodore McCarty (October 10, 1909 – April 1, 2001) was an American businessman who worked with the Wurlitzer Company and the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.
The Fool (design collective)
The Fool were a Dutch design collective and band in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music in the late 1960s.
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The Fool (guitar)
The Fool (also occasionally referred to as Sunny) is a 1964 Gibson SG guitar, painted for Eric Clapton by the Dutch design collective The Fool, from which the guitar takes its name.
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To France
"To France" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984.
Todd Rundgren
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia.
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Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (born 19 February 1948) is an English musician.
Tune-o-matic
Tune-o-matic (also abbreviated to TOM) is the name of a fixed or floating bridge design for electric guitars.
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Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
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See also
1961 musical instruments
- Fender Bass VI
- Gibson SG
- Rickenbacker 4001
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_SG
Also known as Angus Young Jaydee SG, Gibson SG Custom.
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