I am not sure whether this was posted here before, but while cruising around Archive.org I found this 1914 Gibson Catalog I, from the Kalamazoo library, for your download and reading pleasure.
I am not sure whether this was posted here before, but while cruising around Archive.org I found this 1914 Gibson Catalog I, from the Kalamazoo library, for your download and reading pleasure.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Just archived a copy of that.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Acousticmusic.org is a great resource with catalogs also
http://acousticmusic.org/research/history/catalogs/
Phil
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
When catalogs were written! Now, one like that would only be available as a digital download!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
When Grey Hairs Applaud, Progress May Ask: What Have I Done Amiss? Well, there are words to live by, I guess!
Aha. both my A1 and my F4 have had about a 3.5% annualized rate of return since new. My house hasn't appreciated at as good a rate.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Jim--Many thanks for the Gibson catalog. What a great reference piece. It's got me wanting to find one for my own.--Tom Newman
I used to work with a guy that had amassed quite a collection of reprinted as well as some original Gibson catalogs. I think they were so much different than today’s writing, more elegant, not the modern style of embellishments but, very carefully chosen phrasing. Rich and verbally interesting. Go watch the school house scene in the John Wayne movie “The Cowboys”, the reference to the Montgomery Wards catalog is interesting.
It’s a favorite movie of mine!
“Looks like fly specks to me.” Reference to reading music, still cracks me up!
Go watch it!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
For a genuine antique Gibson catalog in decent condition be prepared to pay a few hundred dollars. There are reprints out there of a few of them. Acousticmusic.org, an excellent dealer with a store in Connecticut, has a nice collection of pdfs on their website of lots of Gibson catalogs plus ones from other makers as well.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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