All import duties or customs fees are the buyers responsibility - please be aware of the requirements for your country. There is a chance they might be sold out.Īll items are shipped tracked and insured. Please note that all items are for sale in our Tokyo store. Please contact us for more information about the condition of the product. Enjoy looking at it, enjoy playing it, and you will be drawn into the charm of the guitar more and more.įingerboard / Bridge : Brazilian Rosewood This is one of those guitars that is both powerful enough to be used in the field and has the charm of an old guitar. It has a delicate and clear high range, a strong attack, a powerful low range, and also an aged and withered taste. This one makes you feel that the name "King of Flat Tops" is not an idle one. Masanori Sera is also known to be a fan of this product. In Japan, it has been used by Masanori Sera. Since its release in 1938, the guitar has been used by Elvis Presley, Bob Duran, George Harrison (The Beatles), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Pete Townsend (The Who), Emmylou Harris, The Edge (U2), Ron Wood (Rolling Stones), and many other musicians.
Gibson j 200 movie#
In 1937, it was made for Ray Whitley, a popular Western movie actor and singer (at the time, it was considered effective to make and release models of popular movie actors to promote new guitars), and since its release in 1938, it has been used by Elvis Presley, Bob Duran, George Harrison, and many others. The Gibson J-200 (renamed from the SJ-200 to the J-200 in 1947), also known as the "King of Flat Tops," remains Gibson's top-of-the-line flagship model.
Gibson j 200 free#
Thank you for looking! Feel free to ask any questions! Please note they are for sale in our store and may sell out. Some play well but don’t sound so good, some don’t look good but play well but this one is very much a great acoustic, a really nice sounding guitar and I love it.Welcome to TC Gakki! All photos are of the item for sale. It all depends on the wood, the craftsmanship of the maker, the temperature when it was made, the moisture in the wood… there’s a thousand things that go into making an acoustic guitar sound good. Encuentra Gibson J 200 Mexico - Refacciones Autos y Camionetas a excelentes precios en Entra y conoce nuestras ofertas increíbles. One made on a Tuesday might not feel the same as one made on Wednesday. They can vary tremendously, each individual guitar. Gibson sponsored the event and let us keep the guitars we’d played on the roof which in my case was a fabulous Gibson J-200.Īcoustic guitars are very peculiar. “This guitar of mine comes originally from an event in April 2007 at the Empire State building in New York for Mike Peters’ Cancer Charity ‘Love, Hope & Strength’. Mike, Dave Wakling (The Beat), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and I did a hike up the 1,600 steps to the top of the Empire State Building and then played a little gig there. It is simply the world’s most famous acoustic guitar, and certainly one of most popular, as evidenced by the list of players that have made it their primary acoustic instrument, among them Ray Whitley, Emmylou Harris, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Gram Parsons, and Pete Townshend. It gave purveyors of the new American music scene of the 1930s a reliable, well-built instrument, capable of projecting the sound of the guitar well beyond that of any other acoustic on the market - a fact that still holds true today. Upon its introduction in the late 1930s, the J-200 immediately filled a need for a deeper, more balanced and powerful sound. Today years later the legacy of Gibson’s “King of the Flat-tops” lives on in the new J-200 Standard. From its inaugural appearance in 1937, Gibson’s J-200 set a standard others have been trying to match ever since.