Category:Gibson L-4

**Gibson L-4**
	archtop guitar by Gibson A Gibson L-4 CES model reintroduced in the late 1980s.
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Ken Achard (1990) "Chapter 2 Between The Wars - i) The Establishment of the Gibson Tradition" in The History and Development of the American Guitar, Bold Strummer, p. 8 ISBN: 978-0-933224-18-6.
"The 1918 Catalogue K, showed four guitar models, which already exhibited some interesting and unique features. The L1 and L3 models were ... / The L4 was a grand concert size model hand carved from the same timbers used in the L1 and L3, but featuring an ivoroid bound oval soundhole on the large body. The L4 was fitted with 20 frets, (one more than the other two L models [L1 & L3]), on a fingerboard which was sculptured at the soundhole end in a manner to become well known in later jazz models. The fourth model offered at the time, was the Grand ConcertStyle “O” Artist Model. Like the L4; ... ",
"... the next dramatic development was in 1934. ... The new L-4 was a 16 1/4" bodied instrument ith carved sprucetop and carved maple back. "

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