The Turner Model T is oriented towards electric bottleneck players. It’s got a distinctive shape, a unique double-horsehoe pickup reminiscent of vintage steels, and you can bypass the controls to get just the pickup signal to the amp.
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The Super 400 used to be seen on many big stages with top players in top acts, like Merle Travis, Scotty Moore and Kenny Burrell. Now they are hardly seen, and Gibson doesn’t make many of them – they are mostly built to order. This 1995 model is in great shape, a big guitar with a big sound and a commanding presence.
MORE →This is one of the finest 330’s we have ever seen. The birdseye maple is nicely accented by the Fireglo finish.
MORE →Kay instruments were built under the Kay name from 1931; previously, the company had been Groehsl and then Stromberg-Voisinet. This instrument was built around 1962; it’s in good condition, it plays very well and has a quite good tone.
MORE →Close to the top of the Gibson semi-acoustic line, it’s easy to see from this example why these guitars were favoured by players who needed tone and playability along with a classic appearance. This guitar is in overall good condition.
MORE →This is an incredibly cool guitar. There aren’t a lot of ES-295’s around; they were supplanted by the ES-175, which is a very similar guitar but with humbuckers. As an excellent rockabilly guitar, the ES-295 was famously played by Scotty Moore in Elvis Presley’s band fronm 1952 to 1955. This example, while refinished long ago, is in good playable shape and is ready to rumble!
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