Gibson Moderne

The Gibson Moderne is a 1957 designed, rare solid body electric guitar model with striking asymmetrical body of the U.S. musical instrument manufacturer Gibson Guitar Corporation. The model, whose straight, sweeping body shape of his time was far ahead, was offered by Gibson back in 1982, twenty years after his draft.

History

The President of the Gibson Guitar Corporation, Ted McCarty, decided mid-1950s to include some new models with modern design into the company program. As a result, the designs Explorer, Futura originated in the Modernistic series named ( an early prototype of the Explorer), Flying V and modernity. Whether modernity was made at that time ever in significant numbers, is still unclear. Although the books have made ​​the production of about twenty copies, but then loses every trace. Whether an original instrument from 1957 was preserved is unknown. From this period there are only a few photos and the patent drawing of modernity. Today it is believed that the then -built specimens, although registered on June 20, 1957 by Ted McCarty 's patent, only as prototypes for the sister model, the Explorer served. Since the early 1980s, Gibson, however, has brought at least a limited special edition of the modern on the market. In 1982 a process called Gibson Modern Heritage model that produced in an edition of less than 200 pieces and was commissioned the following year out of the program appeared. Already in 1975, the Japanese guitar Ibanez had placed a slightly modified copy of modernity on the market.

Design and construction of the model

All models of the Modernistic series are solid-body instruments, in the first edition with body in Korinaholz, a mahogany - type, and are equipped with two humbucking pickups with metal caps. How the Model Explorer modernity has a straight asymmetric body, but which has also resemblance to the Flying V model with its double bottom swept body outline. The also asymmetric top plate of the model is broadened significantly upwards and has widely spaced tuners in a 3-3 arrangement, which makes the management of four of the six strings over guide rollers on the head plate required. In the technical equipment (hardware) modernity apparently resembles the Explorer.