Featured Brand: Gibson Guitars

Mandolin maker Orville Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan started the company we now know as Gibson. Orville disliked the bowl-backed mandolins common at the time and introduced his own design featuring single-piece sides and neck. The Gibson mandolin was not only less expensive to produce, it also sounded better than previous designs.

Gibson is still a big name in bluegrass music. Gibson banjos, resonator guitars and mandolins are assembled at the Opry Mills Mall in Nashville--a small factory open to the public with a shop, a concert hall, and a restaurant.

Gibson was an innovator in guitar design throughout the 1920s, specializing in arch top acoustic guitars. They introduced their first electric guitar, the Electric Spanish model or ES-150 in 1936.

Adopted by jazz virtuoso Charlie Christian, the Gibson ES-150 is still known as the Charlie Christian model and its distinctive pickup is still considered one of the best jazz pickups ever made.

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Musician's Friend, the World’s Largest Music Gear Company, offers over 40,000 products on our website. Products offered include guitars, basses, keyboards, percussion, amps, as well as recording, mixing, lighting, and DJ gear. Hundreds of new products are added monthly as our company continues to broaden and deepen its offerings.

Musician's Friend was founded in 1983 by Robert and Deanna Eastman, eventually relocating its headquarters from San Diego to a dairy barn in Southern Oregon. Rob was then joined by brother-in-law Al Dinardi, and the company grew rapidly to become the world's largest direct marketer of music gear. The founders operated the company on one major premise: to give musicians the best prices and selection, along with superior service to help musicians achieve their goals in music. Armed with a vision for excellence, the company was the first in the music industry to offer a generous money-back guarantee, later to become the 45-day Satisfaction and Best Price double guarantee, along with many other innovative programs created to give musicians the best possible shopping experience found anywhere.

Currently, Musician's Friend offers over 36,000 products in its mail order catalogs and to buy online, including discount sale offers. Products offered include electric guitars from top brands like Gibson, Fender, Dean, Martin, Jackson and Taylor, acoustic and bass guitars, keyboards, drums and percussion, amps, as well as recording, mixing, lighting, DJ software and DJ gear. Hundreds of new musical instruments, dj equipment and related products are added monthly as the company continues to broaden and deepen its offerings. Musician's Friend still offers money-back satisfaction and price guarantees on every purchase and prides itself on having a topflight staff of customer service people who live and breathe the products they sell.

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