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Southern Jumbo (serial no. 92303004)
Gibson American
Don Everly
Not on view
The Southern Jumbo is a powerful flat-top guitar favored by many country and western musicians. This one was Don Everly’s main songwriting instrument from the age of sixteen, which he used to cowrite many of the Everly Brothers’ hits, including “(‘Till) I Kissed You” and “Cathy’s Clown.” The duo was famed for their close vocal harmonies and driving rhythm-guitar playing. Their music, including their characteristic open tunings (when a guitar’s open, or unfretted, strings are tuned to a major chord), had an impact on the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Rolling Stones, among others.
Technical Description:
Flat spruce top with round sound hole; mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard; 24¾ in. scale; sunburst finish with five-ply white and black binding; set neck with pearloid split parallelogram inlays and white binding to fingerboard; inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo with crown on headstock; nickel-chrome plated tuners, rosewood bridge, plastic tortoiseshell pickguard
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