This is a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic.
When I was going to Georgia
Southern University in Statesboro, my second cousin was working at a music store
in Savannah. He called me one day and said they had been double shipped on these
Gibson Hummingbirds. They did not have room to stock the extra guitars and were
going to return the overages back to Gibson. He said that he could sell any of them
for his invoice price in order to save shipping costs back to Gibson. My roommate
and I both purchased one of these for $350, which was half price. What a deal.
I think these guitars wholesale for over $2000 today. I was a poor college student
and would not have been able to have such a nice guitar back then had it not been for this
situation. And the best thing is that Gibson acoustic guitars only get better with
age if you take care of them. The top is a cherry sunburst finish and the back is
wine red. It also has 'Schaller' tuners. I recently added a L. R. Baggs iBeam pick-up to this guitar. The
pick-up sounds good, was easy to install, and required the least modification of the
guitar compared to the other acoustic guitar pick-ups I've seen. I only had to
enlarge the end pin hole from 1/4" to 1/2".
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