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    Registered User Randi Gormley's Avatar
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    Default The Gibson 1909 collection

    I'm sure this has been posted before, but it just showed up on a Facebook feed with a question about the "big instrument with all the strings" but I was too dazzled by the F-styles to pay much heed.

    Anyway, here's another glimpse at this photo.
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    Default Re: The Gibson 1909 collection

    I think that might be an Orville harp guitar with that inlay on the headstock. I don't know. I also like the case n the foreground.
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    Default Re: The Gibson 1909 collection

    Early ones were Style R harp guitars. Then, like the one pictured is a Style U. Some were really fancy Im guessing in 1910 up to the 30s they had dot inlays. And the Gibson Script . I own a few. There different. Not everyones idea of something useful.

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    Default Re: The Gibson 1909 collection

    You own a few?!

    And my wife gets worried if I have more than two mandolins.

    Very cool photo by the way.
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    A bunch of stuff with four strings

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    Default Re: The Gibson 1909 collection

    When you look at the hairstyles, clothing and furniture, the Gibson scroll, headstock and detailing almost seems restrained in comparison.

    But the design is very much of their era.

    Great photo, Randi, thanks for sharing.

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    Default Re: The Gibson 1909 collection

    Here's a U Style from 1910:

    https://jakewildwood.blogspot.com/20...rp-guitar.html

    Really different tailpiece and bridge(s), of course. What a handful!

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    That sounds fabulous, and great playing too.

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