This mandolin was made by the Gibson in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1922. It is an A-4 model, serial number 69625. This mandolin has a wooden body with 8 strings, inlaid design around sound hole and at top ...

From its mandolin-making origins to today’s status as one of the most iconic guitar brands in the world, Gibson has seen its fair share of brave new shapes, sounds and technologies, alongside the rise ...

KALAMAZOO, MI— A legacy in music dating back to the turn of the 20th century can be found in Kalamazoo’s Northside neighborhood. Nearly a century after the now-famous Gibson Mandolin-Guitar ...

The first Gibson instruments, mandolins designed as an after-work hobby by company namesake Orville Gibson, date back to 1894. Headquartered in Nashville since 1984, Gibson Guitars, now one of America ...

the man who would start the famous guitar company -- was born in 1856 on a farm in upstate New York, near the small town of Chateaugay. It's unclear why, but in the early 1880s Gibson moved to ...

Mike Black, a Lawrence custom builder of mandolins, poses in his shop with an A-style mandolin similar to ones made by the famous Gibson mandolin builder Lloyd Loar. The staged photo is similar to one ...